The Return of the Guilds: 16 (International Review of Social History Supplements, Series Number 16) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521737656 ISBN 13: 9780521737654

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Using recent approaches in economic, social, labour and institutional history, this volume analyses guilds in the period 500–1700 AD.

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About the Authors

Dr Tine (Martina) De Moor has studied history and environmental sciences at the universities of Ghent, Antwerp and London. In the past, she has published on the evolution of several types of institutions for collective action, and in particular on the functioning of common land in Western Europe. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Jan Luiten van Zanden is Professor of Economic History at Utrecht University and Senior Research Fellow at the IISG.

Jan Lucassen is a Senior Research Fellow at the IISG and Professor of International and Comparative Social History at the Free University in Amsterdam. He has published widely on comparative global labour history, including labour migrations, craftsmen's and journeymen's guilds, labour relations (in particular in the brick industry) and the monetization of remunerations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521737656
• ISBN 13: 9780521737654
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Lucassen Jan