State Corporatism and Proto-Industry: The Württemberg Black Forest, 1580-1797

ISBN-13: 9780521025843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 540 str.

Sheilagh C. Ogilvie; Richard Smith; Jan de Vries

Opis

State Corporatism and Proto-Industry focuses on the WÜ rttemberg worsted industry, an example of a "proto-industry" that arose in many parts of Europe preceding factory industrialization. It has been argued that these proto-industries broke down traditional society but this book suggests otherwise. With the help of the state, corporate institutions such as merchant companies and rural guilds, regulated every aspect of rural life and thus profoundly shaped early modern European economic, demographic and social development.