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State Corporatism and Proto-Industry focuses on an industrial countryside in south-west Germany, where a dense worsted industry dominated the rural economy from 1580 to 1800. This is an example of 'proto-industry', the dense, export-oriented rural manufacturing which arose throughout Europe before factory industrialization. But although the Württemberg worsted industry possessed all the features of a classic proto-industry, closer scrutiny throws doubt on basic assumptions about European proto-industrialization. In this book, Sheilagh Ogilvie shows that proto-industries did not break down traditional society. Instead, corporate institutions such as guilds, merchant companies, village communities and manorial systems retained enormous power. This was a result of 'state corporatism': the expanding early modern state granted privileges to favoured groups in return for fiscal and regulatory co-operation. As Ogilvie shows, these corporate privileges profoundly constrained both individual decisions and economic development.

Guilds --- Industrialization --- Municipal franchises --- Weavers --- Woolen and worsted manufacture --- Woolen goods industry --- History. --- Tisserands --- Lainages --- Laine --- Corporations --- Industrialisation --- History --- Histoire --- Industrie --- Wildberg (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) --- Wildberg (Bade-Wurtemberg, Allemagne) --- Economic conditions --- Conditions économiques --- Wildberg (Baden-Württemberg, Alemania) --- Condiciones económicas. --- Industria de la madera --- Alemania --- Wildberg (Baden-Württemberg) --- Historia. --- Condiciones sociales. --- Arts and Humanities --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions.