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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.

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A comprehensive analysis of European craft guilds through eight centuries of economic historyGuilds ruled many crafts and trades from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, and have always attracted debate and controversy. They were sometimes viewed as efficient institutions that guaranteed quality and skills. But they also excluded competitors, manipulated markets, and blocked innovations. Did the benefits of guilds outweigh their costs? Analyzing thousands of guilds that dominated European economies from 1000 to 1880, The European Guilds uses vivid examples and clear economic reasoning to answer that question.Sheilagh Ogilvie's book features the voices of honorable guild masters, underpaid journeymen, exploited apprentices, shady officials, and outraged customers, and follows the stories of the "vile encroachers"-women, migrants, Jews, gypsies, bastards, and many others-desperate to work but hunted down by the guilds as illicit competitors. She investigates the benefits of guilds but also shines a light on their dark side. Guilds sometimes provided important services, but they also manipulated markets to profit their members. They regulated quality but prevented poor consumers from buying goods cheaply. They fostered work skills but denied apprenticeships to outsiders. They transmitted useful techniques but blocked innovations that posed a threat. Guilds existed widely not because they corrected market failures or served the common good but because they benefited two powerful groups-guild members and political elites.Exploring guilds' inner workings across eight centuries, The European Guilds shows how privileged institutions and exclusive networks shape the wider economy-for good or ill.

Guilds --- Merchants --- History. --- Europe --- Commerce --- European economies. --- European economy. --- Toledo silk-twisters. --- apprentices. --- apprenticeships. --- bribery. --- cartel rents. --- cartels. --- comprehensive training. --- compulsory apprenticeship. --- consumers. --- corrupt governments. --- corruption. --- economic activities. --- economic benefits. --- economic discrimination. --- economic growth. --- economic performance. --- economy. --- entitlement. --- entry barriers. --- exclusive rights. --- exploitation. --- external competition. --- female competitors. --- female masters. --- female workers. --- guild masters. --- guild members. --- guild numbers. --- guild strength. --- guild-free enclaves. --- guilds. --- human capital investment. --- human capital. --- information asymmetries. --- innovation. --- internal cohesiveness. --- internal rivalry. --- invention. --- journeymen. --- legal entitlements. --- male tutelage. --- market failure. --- market failures. --- market manipulation. --- market regulations. --- merchant. --- minimum selling prices. --- political elites. --- political pressure. --- practitioners. --- private-order institutions. --- privileges. --- producer. --- producers. --- quality violations. --- social capital. --- social networks. --- spatial clustering. --- state failures. --- technological innovation. --- technological knowledge. --- work skills.

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This collection of essays provides an up-to-date introduction to 'proto-industrialization': the growth of export-oriented domestic industries which took place all over Europe between about 1500 and 1800. Often these industries expanded alongside agriculture, without advanced technology or centralised factories. Since the 1970s numerous theories have been proposed, arguing that proto-industrialization transformed demographic behaviour, social structure and traditional institutions, and was a major cause of capitalism and factory industrialisation. European Proto-Industrialization summarises the theories and criticisms, and includes chapters written by experts on different European countries. It provides an essential guide to an important, yet often confusing, field of economic and social history.

History of Europe --- anno 1800-1999 --- Industrialization --- Industries --- History. --- -Industries --- -Industrial production --- Industry --- Economics --- Industrial development --- Economic development --- Economic policy --- Deindustrialization --- History --- -History --- Europe --- Industrialization - Europe. --- Industries - Europe - History. --- EUROPE --- REVOLUTION INDUSTRIELLE --- CONDITIONS ECONOMIQUES --- 16E-19E SIECLES --- HISTOIRE --- 17E-18E SIECLES

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geschiedenis --- industrialisatie --- Europa.