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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Social Structure and Manufacturing before the Factory: Rural New England, 175°-l83° / Clark, Christopher -- 2. Capitalism and the State: Capital Accumulation and Proletarianization in the Languedocian Woolens Industry, 1700-1789 / Johnson, Christopher H. -- 3. Unskilled Labor in Paris at the End of the Eighteenth Century / Burstin, Haim -- 4. From Adventurers to Drones: The Saxon Silver Miners as an Early Proletariat / Karant-Nunn, Susan C. -- 5. Mining Women in Early Modern European Society / Vanja, Christina -- 6. Production, Transaction, and Proletarianization: The Textile Industry in Upper Swabia, 1580-1660 / Safley, Thomas Max -- 7. Men of Iron: Masters of the Iron Industry in Sixteenth-Century Tuscany / Morelli, Roberta -- 8. From Craft to Class: The Changing Organization of Cloth Manufacturing in a Catalan Town / Torras, Jaume -- 9. Arsenal and Arsenalotti: Workplace and Community in Seventeenth-Century Venice / Davis, Robert C. -- 10. Social Emancipation in European Printing Workshops before the Industrial Revolution / Materne, Jan -- 11. Hiring and Firing at the Montgolfier Paper Mill / Rosenband, Leonard N. -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
The collection of essays in this book ranges across a wide variety of crafts and industries to offer a unique perspective on the place of labor in the lives ofartisans and wage-earners in the era before large-scale mechanization.The Workplace before the Factory addresses a common theme-the influence of the work process and technological innovation on labor and production before the Industrial Revolution. Covering a broad span of time, place, and enterprise, the authors discuss different kinds of industrial organizations-outwork, small shop, and centralized production. Among the activities they describe are papermaking in eighteenth-century France, linen weaving in Upper Swabia, unskilled labor in Paris, Saxon silver mining, printing in Antwerp, and artisanal crafts in rural New England