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Labor Before the Industrial Revolution: Work, Technology and their Ecologies in an Age of Early Capitalism

By Thomas Max Safley

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
ISBN
9780815369950, 9781351251082, 9780195105070
ASIN
B07KCMHQMG
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1960522 bytes)
Series
Perspectives in Economic and Social History
Pages
276\0
Topic
History
Time added
2020-12-09 04:38:25

Description

One cannot conceive of capitalism without labor. Yet many of the current debates about economic development leading to industrialization fail to directly engage with labor at all. This collection of essays strives to correct this oversight and to reintroduce labor into the great debates about capitalist development and economic growth before the Industrial Revolution. By attending to the effects of specific regulatory, technological, social and physical environments on producers and production in a set of specific industries, these essays use an “ecological” approach that demonstrates how productivity, knowledge and regime changed between 1400 and 1800.This book will be of interest to researchers in history, especially labor history, and European economic development.

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