Author : Peter Kriedte,Hans Medick,Jurgen Schlumbohm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1982-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521238099
Industiarlization before Industiarlization by Peter Kriedte,Hans Medick,Jurgen Schlumbohm Pdf
Beginning in the late Middle Ages, and accelerating in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, there developed in many rural regions of Europe a domestic industry, mass-producing craft goods for distant markets. This book presents an analysis of this 'industrialization before industrialization', and considers the question whether it constituted a distinct mode of production, different from the preceding feudal economy and from subsequent industrial capitalism, or was part of a process of continuous evolution characterized by the spread of wage labour and the penetration of capitalism into the process of production. It is a full-scale attempt to take a look at the place of proto-industrialization in the genesis of capitalism, and will interest economic and social historians, as well as anthropologists, sociologists, and others concerned with the development of capitalism.