Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE ix
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. 1. Social Structure and Manufacturing before the Factory: Rural New England, 175°-l83° 11
6. 2. Capitalism and the State: Capital Accumulation and Proletarianization in the Languedocian Woolens Industry, 1700—1789 37
7. 3. Unskilled Labor in Paris at the End of the Eighteenth Century 63
8. 4. From Adventurers to Drones: The Saxon Silver Miners as an Early Proletariat 73
9. 5. Mining Women in Early Modern European Society 100
10. 6. Production, Transaction, and Proletarianization: The Textile Industry in Upper Swabia, 1580—1660 118
11. 7. Men of Iron: Masters of the Iron Industry in Sixteenth-Century Tuscany 146
12. 8. From Craft to Class: The Changing Organization of Cloth Manufacturing in a Catalan Town 165
13. 9. Arsenal and Arsenalotti: Workplace and Community in Seventeenth-Century Venice 180
14. 10. Social Emancipation in European Printing Workshops before the Industrial Revolution 204
15. 11. Hiring and Firing at the Montgolfier Paper Mill 225
16. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 241
17. INDEX 245