Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe
An edition of Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe (2019)
By Maarten Prak,Patrick Wallis
Publish Date
2022
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
eng
Pages
330
Description:
"The subject of apprenticeship, one of the more enduring of all economic arrangements, has received more attention from economic historians and the economics profession at large in recent years. Yet, compared, say, with issues such as the economics of slave labor or the rise of formal human capital and literacy, apprenticeship -- the mechanism through which practical skills were transferred from generation to generation -- has not been the subject of much research until the last decades"--
subjects: Guilds, History, Apprenticeship programs, Economic history, Economic conditions