Industrial Organization in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

✍ Scribed by George Unwin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 298
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Edition: Reprint
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This third impression of the second edition was originally published in 1963, and in this classic study George Unwin attempted for the first time to bridge the gap between the economic development of medieval England and the England of the eighteenth century with a detailed study of the evolution and growth of the London Livery Companies and the early craft guilds. He discusses at length the various amalgamations of the crafts, the early joint-stock enterprises, protectionism under James I, and the early development of the Trade Union Movement. In his introduction, Professor T. S. Ashton shows the importance of this pioneer study in the light of the industrial development today of the newly emergent nations.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
A Note on George Unwin • T. S. Ashton
Introduction
I. The Amalgamation of the Crafts
II. Differentiation of Classes within the Craft Gild
III. Industrial Capital v. Commercial Capital
IV. The Elizabethan Company
V. The Stuart Corporations of Small Masters
VI. Joint-Stock Enterprise and Industrial Monopoly
VII. Protectionism under James I
VIII. The Antecedents of the Trade Union
Appendix A
I. Extracts from the Clothworkers’ Court Book, 1537–1639
II. Classification of Woolgrowers and Clothiers, 1615
III. Charles I and the Pin Monopoly
IV. The Feltmakers’ Joint-Stock Project, circa 1611
V. ‘The Case of the Feltmakers Truely Stated’
VI. E xtracts from Feltmakers’ Ordinances and Court Book, Mainly Illustrating the Dispute of 1696–9
VII. The Statute of Apprentices Set aside
Appendix B. List of Manuscript Sources for the Historyof the Industrial Companies of London During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Appendix C. List of Books and Articles Consulted
Index