Guilds, Labour and the Urban Body Politic: Fabricating Community in the Southern Netherlands, 1300-1800

by Bert de Munck

Book Overview

This book presents a new view on the relation between labour and community through a focus on craft guilds. In the Southern Netherlands, occupational guilds were both powerful and governed by manufacturing masters, enabling the latter to imprint their mark upon urban society in an economic, socio-cultural and political way. While the urban community was deeply indebted to a corporative spirit and guild ethic originating in medieval Germanic and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367892774
• ISBN13: 9780367892777
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"