Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe

Maarten Prak is Professor of Social and Economic History at Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands. His wide collection of writings includes Citizens without Nations: Urban Citizenship in Europe and the World, c.1000–1789 (Cambridge, 2018). Patrick Wallis is Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His many publications include Medicine and the Market in England and Its Colonies, c. 1450-c. 1850 (2007), co-edited with Mark S. R. Jenner, and he currently edits the Economic History Review.

• Introduction: apprenticeship in early modern Europe Maarten Prak and Patrick Wallis; 1. The economics of apprenticeship Joel Mokyr; 2. Apprenticeship in early modern Madrid Victoria López Barahona and José Nieto Sanchez; 3. A large 'umbrella': patterns of apprenticeship in eighteenth-century Turin Beatrice Zucca Micheletto; 4. Apprenticeship in early modern Venice Anna Bellavitis, Riccardo Cella and Giovanni Colavizza; 5. Actors and practices of German apprenticeship, fifteenth-nineteenth centuries Georg Stöger and Reinhold Reith; 6. Rural artisans' apprenticeship practices in early modern Finland (1700–1850) Merja Uotila; 7. Apprenticeships with and without guilds: the Northern Netherlands Ruben Schalk; 8. Apprenticeship in the Southern Netherlands, c.1400–c.1800 Bert De Munck, Raoul De Kerf and Annelies De Bie; 9. Apprenticeship in England Patrick Wallis; 10. Surviving the end of the guilds: apprenticeship in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France Clare Crowston and Claire Lemercier; Conclusion: European apprenticeship Maarten Prak and Patrick Wallis.

‘A very interesting work, which will be devoured by all who have an interest in early modern history.’ Translated from Aktief