Manufacture in town and country before the factory:

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 hav...

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Other Authors: Berg, Maxine 1950- (Editor), Hudson, Pat 1948- (Editor), Sonenscher, Michael 1947- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press October 2009
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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
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 213 pages) Diagramme, Karten
ISBN:9780511560347
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511560347

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