Lis and Soly (history, Vrije U., Amsterdam) present an ambitious social history of European attitudes toward work and workers in the two thousand years prior to the industrial revolution. Their main q
Apprenticeship or vocational training is a subject of lively debate. Economic historians tend to see apprenticeship as a purely economic phenomenon, as an ‘incomplete contract’ in need of legal and in
For some 500 years, craft guilds played a significant role in shaping the societies of which they were a part. This volume contains eight contributions by Prak (social and economic history, U. of Utre
