Manufacture in Town and Country Before the Factory

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511560347

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.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of illustrations
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

1 - Manufacture in town and country before the factory
pp 1-32

2 - Political economy and the principles of manufacture 1700–1800
pp 33-58

PART I - THE STRUCTURE OF MANUFACTURE
pp 59-60

3 - Variations in industrial structure in pre-industrial Languedoc
pp 61-91

4 - Seasonal fluctuations and social division of labour: rural linen production in the Osnabrück and Bielefeld regions and the urban woollen industry in the Niederlausitz, c. 1770–c. 1850
pp 92-123

5 - From manor to mill: the West Riding in transition
pp 124-144

PART II - ‘WORK’ AND ‘WAGES’
pp 145-146

6 - Work and wages in Paris in the eighteenth century
pp 147-172

7 - Embezzlement, industry and the law in England, 1500–1800
pp 173-205

Appendix 1 - Norwich embezzlement convictions in the eighteenth century: problems of evidence
pp 206-206

Appendix 2 - Estimates of the size of the supplement to wages available through embezzlement in two eighteenth-century industries
pp 207-208

Appendix 3 - Statutes concerned with embezzlement in the putting-out industries, 1500–1800
pp 209-210

Index
pp 211-213

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