European Proto-Industrialization: An Introductory HandbookSheilagh Ogilvie, Markus Cerman This collection of essays provides an up-to-date introduction to 'proto-industrialization': the growth of export-oriented domestic industries which took place all over Europe between about 1500 and 1800. Often these industries expanded alongside agriculture, without advanced technology or centralized factories. Since the 1970s, numerous theories have been proposed, arguing that proto-industrialization transformed demographic behaviour, social structure and traditional institutions, and was a major cause of capitalism and factory industrialization. European proto-industrialization summarizes the theories and criticisms, and includes a reconsideration of the original theories, and chapters written by experts on different European countries. It provides an essential guide to an important, yet often confusing, field of economic and social history. |
Contents
The theories of protoindustrialization | 1 |
Protoindustrialization as a research strategy and a historical period a balancesheet | 12 |
Social institutions and protoindustrialization | 23 |
Protoindustrialization in France | 38 |
Protoindustrialization in England | 49 |
Ireland 1841 preindustrial or protoindustrial industrializing or deindustrializing? | 67 |
Protoindustrialization in Spain | 85 |
Protoindustry in Flanders a critical review | 102 |
Protoindustrialization in Switzerland | 137 |
The protoindustrial heritage forms of rural protoindustry in northern Italy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries | 155 |
Protoindustrial development in Austria | 171 |
Protoindustrialization in Bohemia Moravia and Silesia | 188 |
Protoindustrialization in Sweden | 208 |
Protoindustrialization economic development and social change in early modern Europe | 227 |
References | 240 |
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agrarian agriculture Ångermanland areas Austria Bohemia capital Catalonia cent centralized centres cloth commercial cotton industry countryside Czech lands de-industrialization decline demographic behaviour division of labour domestic industry domestic workers early modern economic eighteenth century employment England entrepreneurs Europe European expansion export factory industrialization farming feudal feudal authorities Flanders forms German guilds Hälsingland households important increased industrial regions industrial revolution Ireland Kisch Kriedte labour force landlords linen linen industry manufacturing marriage mechanization Medick and Schlumbohm Mendels merchant companies Moravia Myška nineteenth century Ogilvie organization peasant family period Pfister phase population growth privileges proto proto-industrial activities proto-industrial production proto-industrial regions putting-out system Ravensberg raw materials role rural industry rural proto-industry Schlumbohm 1981 second serfdom sector seventeenth century Sheilagh Silesia silk sixteenth century spinning structure Sweden textile textile industry theories of proto-industrialization tion towns trade urban Vorarlberg Waldviertel weavers weaving women woollen workers Württemberg yarn Zürich