| Industiarlization Before Industiarlization Contributor(s): Kriedte, Peter (Author), Kriedte (Author), Medick, Hans (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521282284 ISBN-13: 9780521282284 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $47.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1982 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Industries - General - History | Western Europe - General - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 338.634 |
| LCCN: 80-41644 |
| Series: Cambridge Introduction to the History of Mankind |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6" W x 9" (1.12 lbs) 348 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western Europe - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |