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- Title
Structural Changes and Specialization in the Industry of the Southern Netherlands, 1100-1600.
- Authors
Van Der Wee, Herman
- Abstract
This article focuses on the industrial development of Southern Netherlands from 1100s through the 1600s. The epistemological nature, involves the acceptance of a synchronic and diachronic coherence of economic reality in the late middle ages and early modern period, which means that it is possible to distinguish an explicable structure in the industrial development of the Low Countries. In order, however, to make such a deep analysis it is necessary to use a certain degree of abstraction or generalization. Towns and cloth manufacturing obviously existed in western Europe before the eleventh century. What was new was that the growth of numerous towns depended on the development of a textile industry' systematically aiming at division of labour, standardization, and export. Commercial capital was an even more decisive factor of production by its means the textile industry could in fact be integrated in the technical-commercial progress of the expanding towns.
- Subjects
TEXTILE industry; INDUSTRIALIZATION; CITIES &; towns; MANUFACTURED products; INDUSTRIAL engineering; QUALITY control
- Publication
Economic History Review, 1975, Vol 28, Issue 2, p203
- ISSN
0013-0117
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2593484