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9780521737654

The Return of the Guilds

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521737654

  • ISBN10:

    0521737656

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-02-23
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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New approaches in economic, social, labour and institutional history have re-examined guilds - not least within the framework of a re-appraisal of the classic distinction between the 'capitalist' and 'pre-capitalist' modes of production. These fresh approaches are unravelling the reasons why guilds were established, and why they could maintain themselves so long. International comparisons have fostered this rejuvenation of guild studies; awareness is growing that guilds are not just a European phenomenon, but have been prominent all over Northern Africa and the Middle East, as well as in many parts of Asia, including China and Japan. This volume attempts to set up a comparative framework to analyse the functioning of guilds from West to East, in the period between Classical Antiquity and the Industrial Revolution.

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Notes on contributors
Preface: S. R. Epstein (19602007) and the guilds Maarten Prak
The return of the guilds: towards a global history of the guilds in pre-industrial times
Women, gender and guilds in early modern Europe: an overview of recent research
The political economy of European craft guilds: power relations and economic strategies of merchants and master artisans in the medieval and early modern textile industries
Ottoman guilds in the early modern era
The guild in modern South Asia
Brotherhoods and stock societies: guilds in pre-modern Japan
Rural guilds and urbanrural guild relations in early modern Central Europe
Guilds reappraised: Italy in the early modern period
The silent revolution: a new perspective on the emergence of commons, guilds and other forms of corporate collective action in Western Europe
Chinese guilds from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries: an overview
From guild to rotary: hunters' associations and Mali's search for a civil society
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