Guilds, Labour and the Urban Body Politic: Fabricating Community in the Southern Netherlands, 1300-1800

ISBN-13: 9780815372028 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 312 str.

Bert De Munck

Opis

This book presents an integrated history of the guilds in the Southern Netherlands, connecting political history, the history of political thought, economic history, and labor history, while taking into account the cultural and religious context. It does so from a long-term perspective, in order to counter anachronistic and ahistorical views on the emergence of European modernity.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Communal Revolts and the Politicization of Labor  2. The Fabrication of the Urban Body Politic  3. The Political Economy of Freeman Status  4. Corporatism, Proletarianization and the Patriarchal Order  5. Equality, Solidarity and the Decline of Brotherhood  Epilogue: Dis/Assembling the Workplace and the Agora

O autorze

Bert De Munck is Professor at the History Department at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.