Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe

Maarten Prak, Patrick Wallis

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781108496926
• eBook ISBN: 9781108755733
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Economic History
• Index: Economics

This is the first comparative and comprehensive account of occupational training before the Industrial Revolution. Apprenticeship was a critical part of human capital formation, and, because of this, it has a central role to play in understanding economic growth in the past. At the same time, it was a key stage in the lives of many people, whose access to skills and experience of learning were shaped by the guilds that trained them. The local and national studies contained in this volume bring together the latest research into how skills training worked across Europe in an era before the emergence of national school systems. These essays, written to a common agenda and drawing on major new datasets, systematically outline the features of what amounted to a European-wide system of skills education, and provide essential insights into a key institution of economic and social history.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe
• 1 The Economics of Apprenticeship
• 2 Artisan Apprenticeship in Early Modern Madrid
• 3 A Large ‘Umbrella’: Patterns of Apprenticeship in Eighteenth-Century Turin
• 4 Apprenticeship in Early Modern Venice
• 5 Actors and Practices of German Apprenticeship, Fifteenth–Nineteenth Centuries
• 6 Rural Artisans’ Apprenticeship Practices in Early Modern Finland (1700–1850)
• 7 Apprenticeships with and without Guilds: The Northern Netherlands
• 8 Apprenticeship in the Southern Netherlands, c. 1400–c. 1800
• 9 Apprenticeship in England
• 10 Surviving the End of the Guilds: Apprenticeship in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France
• Conclusion: Apprenticeship in Europe – A Survey
• Index