MANUFACTURE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY BEFORE THE FACTORY
Written by Maxine Berg, Pat Hudson, Michael Sonenscher
Published by Cambridge University Press
in 2002
ISBN: 0521893593
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MANUFACTURE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY BEFORE THE FACTORY
Written by Maxine Berg, Pat Hudson, Michael Sonenscher.
Stock no. 2135966
1st thus.
2002.
Softcover.
Nearly fine condition.
A collection of essays based on the SSRC Conference on Manufacture in Town and Country before the Factory held in Balliol College, Oxford in September 1980. Cardwraps. 213 pages (including index). ISBN: 0521893593.
Front cover
Contents
- 1. Manufacture in town and country before the factory
- 2. Political economy and the principles of manufacture 1700-1800
- Part I The Structure of Manufacture
- 3. Variations in industrial structure in pre-industrial Languedoc
- 4. Seasonal fluctuations and social division of labour...
- 5. From manor to mill: the West Riding transition
- Part II 'Work' and 'Wages'
- 6. Work and wages in Paris in the eighteenth century
- 7. Embezzlement industry and the law in England, 1500-1800