Learning on the Shop Floor

Historical Perspectives on Apprenticeship
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84545-341-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

Reihe: International Studies in Social History

Apprenticeship or vocational training is a subject of lively debate. Economic historians tend to see apprenticeship as a purely economic phenomenon, as an ‘incomplete contract’ in need of legal and institutional enforcement mechanisms. The contributors to this volume have adopted a broader perspective. They regard learning on the shop floor as a complex social and cultural process, to be situated in an ever-changing historical context. The results are surprising. The authors convincingly show that research on apprenticeship and learning on the shop floor is intimately associated with migration patterns, family economy and household strategies, gender perspectives, urban identities and general educational and pedagogical contexts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Munck, Bert De

Kaplan, Steven L.

Soly, Hugo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Preface

Introduction Chapter 1. ‘Learning on the Shop Floor’ in Historical Perspective

Bert De Munck and Hugo Soly

PART I: BETWEEN SCHOOL AND HOUSEHOLD

Chapter 2. Apprentices, Servants and Other Workers: Apprenticeship in Japan

Mary Louise Nagata

Chapter 3. From School to Workshop: Pre-training and Apprenticeship in Old Regime France

Clare Crowston

PART II: BETWEEN CONTRACT AND PRACTICE

Chapter 4. Apprenticeship and Guild Control in the Netherlands, c.1450–1800

Karel Davids

Chapter 5. Construction and Reproduction: The Training and Skills of Antwerp Cabinetmakers in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Bert De Munck

Chapter 6. Learning by Brewing: Apprenticeship and the English Brewing Industry in the Late Victorian and Early Edwardian Period

Jonathan Reinarz

PART III: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS

Chapter 7. Silk Weaver and Purse Maker Apprentices in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Vienna

Annemarie Steidl

Chapter 8. Social Mobility and Apprenticeship in Late Medieval Flanders

Peter Stabel

Chapter 9. Apprentices in the German and Austrian Crafts in Early Modern Times: Apprentices as Wage Earners?

Reinhold Reith

Conclusion Chapter 10. Reconsidering Apprenticeship: Afterthoughts

Steven L. Kaplan

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Munck, Bert De
Bert De Munck is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, where he teaches social and economic history of the early modern period, history and social theory, and European ethnology and heritage. His research focuses on the history of craft guilds, ‘social capital’ and vocational education.

Kaplan, Steven L.
Steven L. Kaplan is Professor of European History at Cornell University. He published Les ventres de Paris. Pouvoir et approvisionnement dans la France d’Ancien Régime (Fayard, 1988), Le meilleur pain du monde. Les boulangers de Paris au XVIIIe siècle (Fayard, 1996), La fin des corporations (Fayard, 2001) and (as editor, with Philippe Minard) La France, malade du corporatisme(2004).

Soly, Hugo
Hugo Soly is Professor of Early Modern History and Director of the Centre for Historical Research into Urban Transformations at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. His writings focus on five major areas – urban development, poverty and poor relief, ‘deviant’ behaviour, industrialization, and craft guilds. Currently he is working on perceptions of work in pre-industrial Europe.

Bert De Munck is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, where he teaches social and economic history of the early modern period, history and social theory, and European ethnology and heritage. His research focuses on the history of craft guilds, ‘social capital’ and vocational education.