Preface 1. The Origins of the Company 2. The Company and the Control of the Craft, 1400 - 1600 3. Income and Property, 1438 - 1600 4. Demarcation Disputes and Weaker Craft Control, 1600- 1670 5. Income and Property, 1600- 1666 6. A Period of Stagnation, 1666- 1700 7. A Century of Unspectacular Progress 8. Growing Prosperity, 1800- 1880 9. The Coming of the Welfare State Appendices Collected Notes Index
Biography
B. W. E. Alford is Emeritus Professor of Economic and Social History, University of Bristol.
T. C. Barker (19 July 1923 – 22 November 2001) was a British social and economic historian.
Reviews of the original publication:
‘A new history of the Carpenters Company was long overdue. The last substantial history was published in 1887 and was intended primarily for members of the Company. The book under review, written by two economic historians, is more ambitious in aim and much broader in scope: the Company's history is no longer treated in isolation but is considered in relation to ‘developments in the craft and changes in the London scene’.’
- William Kellaway, History, Vol 54, No 182, OCTOBER 1969.
