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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Apprenticeship in early modern Europe. Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020. (DLC) 2019027821 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Maarten Roy Prak; Patrick Wallis |
| ISBN: | 9781108496926 110849692X |
| OCLC Number: | 1112129065 |
| Description: | xii, 322 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | Introduction: Apprenticeship in early modern Europe / Maarten Prak, Patrick Wallis -- The economics of apprenticeship / Joel Mokyr -- Apprenticeship in early modern Madrid / Victoria López Barahona, José Nieto Sanchez -- A large 'umbrella' : patterns of apprenticeship in 18th-century Turin / Beatrice Zucca Micheletto -- Apprenticeship in early modern Venice / Giovanni Colavizz, Riccardo Cella and Anna Bellavitis -- Actors and practices of German apprenticeship, 15th-19th centuries / Georg Stöger, Reinhold Reith -- Rural artisans' apprenticeship practices in early modern Finland (1700-1850) / Merja Uotila -- Apprenticeships with and without guilds : the Northern Netherlands / Ruben Schalk -- Apprenticeship in the Southern Netherlands, c.1400-c.1800 / Bert De Munck, Raoul De Kerf, and Annelies De Bie -- Apprenticeship in England / Patrick Wallis -- Surviving the end of the guilds : apprenticeship in 18th-and 19th-century France / Clare Crowston, Claire Lemercier -- Conclusion: European apprenticeship / Maarten Prak, Patrick Wallis. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Maarten Prak, Patrick Wallis. |
Abstract:
This is the first European history of apprenticeship before the Industrial Revolution. It reveals how human capital formation - a key explanation for economic development - operated across the continent. A comparative set of cutting-edge local and national case-studies uncovers a European-wide system of skills education.
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'A very interesting work, which will be devoured by all who have an interest in early modern history.' Translated from Aktief
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- Europe.
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- Berufsausbildung
- Bildung
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