Industiarlization before IndustiarlizationBeginning 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. |
Contents
world market Kriedte | 12 |
Protoindustrialization | 21 |
c Conditions in the world market | 33 |
The structures and function of populationdevelopment | 74 |
Relations of production productive forces crises | 94 |
the penetration of capital into | 101 |
capitalist manu | 107 |
crises of the type | 117 |
the political and institutional framework | 126 |
Protoindustrialization between industrialization and | 135 |
PART TWO | 161 |
A comparative | 178 |
Notes | 201 |
Index | 302 |
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Industiarlization before Industiarlization Peter Kriedte,Hans Medick,Jurgen Schlumbohm No preview available - 1982 |
Industiarlization before Industiarlization Peter Kriedte,Hans Medick,Jurgen Schlumbohm No preview available - 1982 |
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