1st Edition
Guilds, Labour and the Urban Body Politic Fabricating Community in the Southern Netherlands, 1300-1800
By Bert De Munck
Copyright 2018
326 Pages
by
Routledge
326 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
326 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book presents a new view on the relation between labour and community through a focus on craft guilds. In the Southern Netherlands, occupational guilds were both powerful and governed by manufacturing masters, enabling the latter to imprint their mark upon urban society in an economic, socio-cultural and political way. While the urban community was deeply indebted to a corporative spirit and... Read more
Introduction 1. Communal Revolts and the Politicization of Labor 2. The Fabrication of the Urban Body Politic 3. The Political Economy of Freeman Status 4. Corporatism, Proletarianization and the Patriarchal Order 5. Equality, Solidarity and the Decline of Brotherhood Epilogue: Dis/Assembling the Workplace and the Agora
Biography
Bert De Munck is Professor at the History Department at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
