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- Title
One counter and your own account: redefining illicit labour in early modern Antwerp.
- Authors
DE MUNCK, BERT
- Abstract
This article examines the problem of illicit labour from the perspective of transformations in the (local) distribution channels. Rather than large masters circumventing the guilds' rules regarding labour market entry or large merchants shifting from a Kauf to a Verlag system, early modern manufacturing guilds in Antwerp confronted mercers and wholesalers who entered into production without being masters. In response, the guilds extended their rules, so that their regulations actually matured in the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Rather than (labour market) deregulation and proto-industrialization, the issue was the disappearance of the straightforward link between production and retailing, tied together by mastership.
- Subjects
ANTWERP (Belgium); BELGIUM; GUILDS; LABOR laws; LABOR market; MERCHANTS; TRADE regulation; DEVELOPMENT economics; PROTOINDUSTRIALIZATION; PRODUCTION (Economic theory); ECONOMIC development
- Publication
Urban History, 2010, Vol 37, Issue 1, p26
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0963926810000052