Wage Labor and Guilds in Medieval Europe
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: February 20, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780807844984
Subjects: Economic history; Labour economics; Social history; World history: c 500 to C 1500; Sociology; History Of Labor; Medieval World History (Circa 450 - Circa 1450); History: World; General; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Medieval; History / Medieval; History : Medieval; Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations; Social Science : General
First sentence: A study of the medieval guild system must begin with a brief survey of the ancient Roman guild because a line of argument will always be in favor of a continuity, however tenuous and ill-defined, between the Roman college and the medieval guild.