Manufacture in Town and Country Before the Factory

by Edited by Maxine Berg , Pat Hudson , Michael Sonenscher

• ISBN13: 9780521893596
• ISBN10: 0521893593
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-09
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The internal organisation of production before the development of the factory system is still shrouded in historical mystery. How goods were made before machines, how work was organised before the factory system, how artisans and labourers perceived and lived their work are questions to which we have only hesitant and tentative answers. Hitherto, historians have been too concerned with the emerging features of the modern industrial capitalist order to seek to understand how another and different economy and community worked in its own terms. The essays in this book are intended to begin to remedy this neglect.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Manufacture in town and country before the factory	1	(32)
Maxine Berg
Pat Hudson
Michael Sonenscher
Political economy and the principles of manufacture 1700--1800	33	(28)
Maxine Berg
PART I THE STRUCTURE OF MANUFACTURE
Variations in industrial structure in pre-industrial Languedoc	61	(31)
J. K. J. Thomson
Seasonal fluctuations and social division of labour: rural linen production in the Osnabruck and Bielefeld regions and the urban woollen industry in the Niederlausitz, c. 1770--c. 1850	92	(32)
Jurgen Schlumbohm
From manor to mill: the West Riding in transition	124	(23)
Pat Hudson
PART II `WORK' AND `WAGES'
Work and wages in Paris in the eighteenth century	147	(26)
Michael Sonenscher
Embezzlement, industry and the law in England, 1500--1800	173	(38)
John Styles
Index	211