The Return of the Guilds: Volume 16

Dr Tine (Martina) De Moor has studied history and environmental sciences at the universities of Ghent, Antwerp and London. In the past, she has published on the evolution of several types of institutions for collective action, and in particular on the functioning of common land in Western Europe. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Jan Luiten van Zanden is Professor of Economic History at Utrecht University and Senior Research Fellow at the IISG. Jan Lucassen is a Senior Research Fellow at the IISG and Professor of International and Comparative Social History at the Free University in Amsterdam. He has published widely on comparative global labour history, including labour migrations, craftsmen's and journeymen's guilds, labour relations (in particular in the brick industry) and the monetization of remunerations.

• Notes on contributors; Preface: S. R. Epstein (1960–2007) and the guilds Maarten Prak; 1. The return of the guilds: towards a global history of the guilds in pre-industrial times Jan Lucassen, Tine De Moor, and Jan Luiten van Zanden; 2. Women, gender and guilds in early modern Europe: an overview of recent research Clare Crowston; 3. The political economy of European craft guilds: power relations and economic strategies of merchants and master artisans in the medieval and early modern textile industries Hugo Soly; 4. Ottoman guilds in the early modern era Onur Yildirim; 5. The guild in modern South Asia Tirthankar Roy; 6. Brotherhoods and stock societies: guilds in pre-modern Japan Mary Louise Nagata; 7. Rural guilds and urban–rural guild relations in early modern Central Europe Josef Ehmer; 8. Guilds reappraised: Italy in the early modern period Luca Mocarelli; 9. The silent revolution: a new perspective on the emergence of commons, guilds and other forms of corporate collective action in Western Europe Tine De Moor; 10. Chinese guilds from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries: an overview Christine Moll-Murata; 11. From guild to rotary: hunters' associations and Mali's search for a civil society Jan Jansen.