European Guilds
Subtitle: An Economic Analysis
Series: Princeton economic history of the Western world
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 672
ISBN-13: 9780691137544
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS
pagenum: v; title: LIST OF FIGURES AND PLATES
pagenum: vii; title: LIST OF TABLES
pagenum: ix; title: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
pagenum: xv; label: CHAPTER 1
title: The Debate about Guilds
pagenum: 1; title: Why is this Important?
pagenum: 5; title: A Brief History of Guilds
pagenum: 8; title: The Debate so far
pagenum: 16; title: Leveraging Social Capital
pagenum: 18; title: Getting Data about Guilds
pagenum: 24; title: The Structure of this Book
pagenum: 31; label: CHAPTER 2
title: Guilds and Governments
pagenum: 36; title: Guild Wars
pagenum: 38; title: Guild Legislation
pagenum: 42; title: What did Guilds do for Governments?
pagenum: 46; title: Cash Payments
pagenum: 48; title: Sharing Guild Revenues
pagenum: 50; title: Emergency Fiscal Assistance
pagenum: 52; title: Regular Taxation of Guilds
pagenum: 54; title: Assistance in Tax Collection
pagenum: 56; title: Loans to Governments
pagenum: 58; title: Regulatory Assistance
pagenum: 60; title: Military Support
pagenum: 63; title: Political Support
pagenum: 67; title: Quantifying the Cost
pagenum: 69; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 77; label: CHAPTER 3
title: Entry Barriers
pagenum: 83; title: Exclusive Rights to Trade
pagenum: 86; title: Barriers to Entry
pagenum: 93; title: Numerus Clausus
pagenum: 93; title: Group Affiliation
pagenum: 96; title: Local Citizenship
pagenum: 96; title: Freedom From Serfdom or Slavery
pagenum: 100; title: Ethnicity and Language
pagenum: 101; title: Religion
pagenum: 103; title: Demographic Characteristics
pagenum: 106; title: Age
pagenum: 106; title: Marital Status
pagenum: 107; title: Legitimacy
pagenum: 108; title: Family Ties with Existing Masters
pagenum: 110; title: Economic Characteristics as Entry Barriers
pagenum: 116; title: Wealth, Propert, Income
pagenum: 116; title: Occupational Demarcations
pagenum: 116; title: Apprentice Admission Fees
pagenum: 118; title: Mastership Fees
pagenum: 121; title: Additional Mastership Charges
pagenum: 123; title: Operating Licences
pagenum: 125; title: Collective Acceptability
pagenum: 128; title: “Dishonourable” Occupational Background
pagenum: 128; title: Collective Acceptability and Reputation
pagenum: 131; title: Did Guild Entry Barriers Matter?
pagenum: 132; title: Contemporary Complaints
pagenum: 133; title: People Changed Their Behaviour
pagenum: 138; title: Willingness to Pay for Guild Membership
pagenum: 141; title: Willingness to Incur Costs to Circumvent Guild Entry Barriers
pagenum: 143; title: Guilds Pay Governments for Entry Barriers
pagenum: 148; title: Guilds Invested in Lobbying, Litigation, and Conflict
pagenum: 150; title: Systems of Detection and Punishment
pagenum: 155; title: Was it just Culture?
pagenum: 164; title: Macro Effects of Entry Barriers
pagenum: 166; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 168; label: CHAPTER 4
title: Market Manipulation
pagenum: 172; title: Manipulating Output Markets
pagenum: 176; title: Guild Price-Fixing
pagenum: 176; title: Guild Output Quotas
pagenum: 179; title: Limits on Marketing
pagenum: 181; title: Physical Limits on Workshops, Equipment, and Materials
pagenum: 184; title: Limits on Workforce Size
pagenum: 186; title: Manipulating Input Markets
pagenum: 189; title: Guild Intervention to Depress Labour Costs
pagenum: 190; title: Guild Manipulation to Depress the Cost of Shops and Raw Material
pagenum: 192; title: Did this Matter?
pagenum: 194; title: Contemporary Testimony about Guild’s Market Manipulation
pagenum: 195; title: Political Conflict over Guild’s Market Manipulation
pagenum: 200; title: Litigation over Guild’s Market Manipulation
pagenum: 204; title: Other Forms of Conflict
pagenum: 207; title: Collective Action of Workers
pagenum: 210; title: Systems of Detection and Punishment
pagenum: 214; title: Guild’s Effects on Prices and Supplies
pagenum: 218; title: Was Guild Price-Fixing Beneficial?
pagenum: 224; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 227; label: CHAPTER 5
title: Guilds and Women
pagenum: 232; title: A Gender Typology of Guilds
pagenum: 235; title: All-Female Guilds
pagenum: 237; title: Mixed-Sex Guilds
pagenum: 242; title: Guilds with Widow’s Rights
pagenum: 248; title: Conditions on Widow’s Rights
pagenum: 251; title: Limitations on What Widows Could Do
pagenum: 255; title: Guilds That Excluded Females from Mastership
pagenum: 262; title: Guilds Excluding All Female Participation
pagenum: 264; title: Apprenticeship and Women
pagenum: 266; title: Journeywomen
pagenum: 271; title: Guilds and Masters’ Wives
pagenum: 272; title: Guilds and Masters’ Daughters
pagenum: 275; title: Guilds and Female Servants
pagenum: 278; title: Guilds and Independent Females
pagenum: 281; title: Did This Matter?
pagenum: 284; title: Did the Guild System Provide Well for Women?
pagenum: 285; title: What about Biology?
pagenum: 286; title: Reproductive and Domestic Responsibilities
pagenum: 286; title: Lack of Skill?
pagenum: 291; title: Weakness
pagenum: 294; title: Female Agency
pagenum: 298; title: Alternative Training Institutions
pagenum: 299; title: How Good an Alternative Is The Informal Sector
pagenum: 301; title: Culture Rather Than Institution?
pagenum: 303; title: Did Guilds Constraints on Women Matter for the Wider Economy?
pagenum: 305; label: CHAPTER 6
title: Quality Regulation
pagenum: 307; title: How Much Attention Did Guilds Devote to Quality Certification
pagenum: 314; title: How Effective Were Guilds in Carrying Out Quality Certifications
pagenum: 319; title: Did Guilds Certify Quality by Fostering An Ethos of Honourable Behaviour?
pagenum: 323; title: How Important was Collective Guild Contracting
pagenum: 327; title: How Important were Guild Sales Rooms?
pagenum: 330; title: Did Alternative Quality Certification Institutions Exist?
pagenum: 333; title: Did Consumers Avoid Non-Guild-Certified Wares?
pagenum: 336; title: Did Industries with Guild Quality Certification Out-Perform those Without?
pagenum: 341; title: What Role Did Guilds Play With Regard to Product Quality?
pagenum: 345; title: Quality Certification and Rent-Seeking
pagenum: 345; title: Quality Certification and Industrial Agility
pagenum: 347; title: Guild Quality Certification and the Informal Sector
pagenum: 349; title: Unintended Effects of Guilds on Quality
pagenum: 350; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 352; label: CHAPTER 7
title: Human Capital Investment
pagenum: 354; title: Theories About Guilds and Apprenticeship
pagenum: 356; title: How Much Skill Did Pre-Modern Crafts and Services Need?
pagenum: 360; title: Low-Skilled Yet Guilded
pagenum: 362; title: Length of Training—The Controversy
pagenum: 368; title: No Standard Lenght
pagenum: 368; title: Minimum Apprenticeship Terms—A Bond on Performance?
pagenum: 378; title: Craft Practice by Females Who Were Denied Guild Training
pagenum: 386; title: Did Apprenticeship Need Guilds?
pagenum: 388; title: Did All Guilds Require Apprenticeship
pagenum: 392; title: Enforcement: Principle or Privilege?
pagenum: 396; title: Did Guilds Make Sure Masters Trained Their Apprentices?
pagenum: 405; title: How Carefully Did Guilds Monitor Skills?
pagenum: 410; title: Guild Training and Economic Development
pagenum: 420; title: Intercontinental Comparisons of Skill Premium
pagenum: 420; title: How the Same Industry Performed with Different Training Regimes
pagenum: 425; title: The Social Distribution of Human Capital Investments
pagenum: 432; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 435; label: CHAPTER 8
title: Innovation
pagenum: 440; title: Were Guilds Good for Innovation?
pagenum: 440; title: Monopoly Profits?
pagenum: 440; title: Price Controls
pagenum: 442; title: Apprenticeship and Generational Diffusion
pagenum: 445; title: Journeymanship and Geographical Diffusion
pagenum: 448; title: Guilds and Spatial Clustering
pagenum: 456; title: Guilds Directly Opposed Innovation
pagenum: 461; title: Guild Opposition to Innovations
pagenum: 462; title: When Did Guilds Not Prevent Innovation?
pagenum: 463; title: Masters’ Profits
pagenum: 464; title: Internal Dissension
pagenum: 466; title: Inter-Guild Conflict
pagenum: 467; title: Merchant Lobbying
pagenum: 468; title: Countervailing Privileges
pagenum: 469; title: Guild-Free Enclaves
pagenum: 470; title: Did Guild Opposition to Innovation Matter?
pagenum: 474; title: Only Labour-Saving Innovations?
pagenum: 474; title: Impractical?
pagenum: 476; title: Harmful Innovations?
pagenum: 479; title: Intellectual Property—Individual or Collective?
pagenum: 480; title: Evasion?
pagenum: 482; title: Indirect Effects of Guilds on Innovation
pagenum: 484; title: Quality Regulations
pagenum: 485; title: Training Regulations
pagenum: 487; title: Limits on Workshop Size
pagenum: 489; title: Barriers to Entry of New Capital
pagenum: 490; title: Barriers against Non-Local Craftsmen
pagenum: 491; title: Import Restrictions
pagenum: 493; title: Barriers to Emigration
pagenum: 494; title: Written Communication
pagenum: 496; title: Inter-Guild Demarcations
pagenum: 497; title: Demarcations between Crafts and Commerce
pagenum: 499; title: Assessing the Alternatives
pagenum: 501; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 508; label: CHAPTER 9
title: Guilds and Growth
pagenum: 511; title: Strength in Numbers
pagenum: 512; title: Craftsmen and Merchants
pagenum: 518; title: Internal Cohesiveness
pagenum: 519; title: Occupational Homogeneity
pagenum: 520; title: Guild Assemblies
pagenum: 522; title: Attendance at Guild Assemblies
pagenum: 525; title: Guilds and Governments
pagenum: 527; title: Political Representation
pagenum: 527; title: Support from the Crown
pagenum: 529; title: Enforcement by Public Officials and Legal System
pagenum: 531; title: Political Permission to Exist
pagenum: 533; title: Guilds and the Urban System
pagenum: 536; title: Guild Representation in Town Government
pagenum: 536; title: Enforcement of Guild Privileges by Town Officials
pagenum: 538; title: Towns or Occupations without Guilds
pagenum: 539; title: Inter-Urban Competition
pagenum: 543; title: Town-Country Relations
pagenum: 544; title: Rural Institutions
pagenum: 547; title: Guilds that Included Rural Producers
pagenum: 547; title: Guilds and Seigneurial Institutions
pagenum: 549; title: Jurisdictional Enclaves
pagenum: 551; title: European Variation
pagenum: 555; label: CHAPTER 10
title: Conclusion
pagenum: 564; title: Did Guilds Inflict Economic Harm?
pagenum: 565; title: Did Guilds Create Countervailing Benefits?
pagenum: 567; title: Did Guilds Have Unintended Effects?
pagenum: 570; title: Exclusive Rights to Practice
pagenum: 571; title: Entry Barriers
pagenum: 572; title: Manipulating Output Markets
pagenum: 573; title: Manipulating Input Markets
pagenum: 573; title: Wider Implications
pagenum: 574; title: Why Did Guilds Exist—and Why Did They Finally Disappear?
pagenum: 577; title: BIBLIOGRAPHY
pagenum: 587; title: INDEX
pagenum: 637