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Book SynopsisFirst Published in 1963. This book has grown up out of a piece of research planned by the author when a student in Berlin in 1898, and commenced to carry out as a student of the London School of Economics in the following year. An article published in the Economic Journal for September 1900, under the title, A Seventeenth Century Trade Union', which was the first outcome of this investigation. This work seeks to bridge over the gap which appeared to exist in industrial history between medieval England and the England of the eighteenth century.
Table of ContentsThe amalgamation of the crafts; differentiation of classes within the craft gild; industrial capital v. commercial capital; the Elizabeth company; the Stuart corporations of small masters; joint-stock enterprise and industrial monopoly; protectionism under James I; the antecedents of the trade union. Appendix A: extracts from the clothworkers' court book, 1537-1639; classification of woolgrowers and clothiers, 1615; Charles I and the pin monopoly; the feltmakers' joint-stock project, circa 1611; the case of the feltmakers truely stated; extracts from feltmakers' ordinances and court book, mainly illustrating the dispute of 1696-9; the statue of apprentices set aside. Appendix B: list of manuscript sources for the history of the industrial companies of London during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Appendix C: list of books and articles consulted.
