ABSTRACT
This edited collection, first published in 1991, focuses on the commercial relations, marketing structures and development of consumption that accompanied early industrial expansion. The papers examine aspects of industrial structure and work organisation, including women’s work, and highlight the conflict and compromise between work traditions and the emergence of a market culture. With an overarching introduction providing a background to European manufacturing, this title will be of particular interest to students of social and economic history researching early industrial Europe and the concurrent emergence of a material, consumer culture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|26 pages
Introduction
part II|63 pages
The Market and the State
part III|66 pages
Markets, Merchants and Middlemen
part IV|45 pages
Markets and Urban Manufacture
part V|56 pages
Market Production and Women'S Work
part VI|62 pages
Market Structures and Social Institutions: Commerce and Customary Context