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Pre-industrial worlds of production: conventions, institutions and organizations
Vorindustrielle Welten der Produktion: Konventionen, Institutionen und Organisationen
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Abstract
"The concept of the worlds of production is discussed as an approach for analysing different forms of producing linen in the City of Münster in Westphalia in 16th and 17th century. The analysis shows how different conventions of product quality, of markets, of organizing artisans and of production r... view more
"The concept of the worlds of production is discussed as an approach for analysing different forms of producing linen in the City of Münster in Westphalia in 16th and 17th century. The analysis shows how different conventions of product quality, of markets, of organizing artisans and of production regimes are combined to coordinate the actors and the objects and constitute a particular world of production. Fabricating linen in Münster did not take place in one homogeneous trade, but was operated in three different worlds of production, which are analyzed in detail." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
production; convention; organizations; Westfalia; factory; pre-industrial society; sixteenth century; seventeenth century; town; historical development
Classification
Social History, Historical Social Research
Manufacturing
Organizational Sociology
Method
descriptive study; historical
Document language
English
Publication Year
2011
Page/Pages
p. 125-149
Journal
Historical Social Research, 36 (2011) 4
Issue topic
Conventions and institutions from a historical perspective / Konventionen und Institutionen in historischer Perspektive
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.36.2011.4.125-149
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed