Technologies of Learning

Munck, Bert De

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“…From the evidence of private apprentice contracts, apprentices often appear to have been under tutelage longer than the term the guilds prescribed; 54 or they learned specialized skills or moved from workshop to workshop to learn a wider range of skills. 55 As a result, the skills of guildbased artisans were not necessarily superior to the skills of outsiders. In the mid-eighteenth century, masters in the building sector discussing the use of unfree labour with free journeymen claimed that unfree journeymen, some of whom were aliens, were better trained and had skills more attuned to demand.…”

Section: From Proletarianization To Discussion On Product Qualitymentioning

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One counter and your own account: redefining illicit labour in early modern Antwerp

Munck

2010

Urban History

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This article examines the problem of illicit labour from the perspective of transformations in the (local) distribution channels. Rather than large masters circumventing the guilds' rules regarding labour market entry or large merchants shifting from a Kauf to a Verlag system, early modern manufacturing guilds in Antwerp confronted mercers and wholesalers who entered into production without being masters. In response, the guilds extended their rules, so that their regulations actually matured in the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Rather than (labour market) deregulation and proto-industrialization, the issue was the disappearance of the straightforward link between production and retailing, tied together by mastership.

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Section: From Proletarianization To Discussion On Product Qualitymentioning

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One counter and your own account: redefining illicit labour in early modern Antwerp

Munck

2010

Urban History

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“…Whereas from a historical perspective, learning came virtually down to working, we took a different approach and explored the Guidebook topic by topic, not hindered by any deadlines or the need to secure income. 71 Topics were selected based on their feasibility and potential interest for the research question. Consequently, procedures like mercury-gilding were off-limits due to safety concerns.…”

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“…Historian De Munck, based on several examples of apprenticeship learning in early modern Antwerp, even argues that specializations were the "most serious impediments to the transfer of technical knowledge." 88 Moreover, there are several known cases in which apprenticeships were not successful for less noble reasons than specializations. Some Dutch apprentices in gold-and silversmithing complained about mediocre education in the seventeenth century.…”

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Learning a Craft from Books

Hagendijk

2018

Nuncius

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The early modern period witnessed a great increase in the production and dissemination of artisanal handbooks, manuals and recipes. A central question is what role these texts played in the transmission of artisanal knowledge. This study explores the case of Dutch silversmith Willem van Laer (1674–1722) who published a Guidebook for upcoming gold- and silversmiths (1721), a comprehensive and well-received manual of the craft. To assess the role of the Guidebook in the acquisition of practical skills in the eighteenth century, this study employs traditional historical methods combined with historical re-enactment. I argue that effective use of the Guidebook depended on complementary hands-on education of master craftsmen, which suggests that the Guidebook was far from a DIY crash course and illustrates that the textual transmission of craft knowledge depended upon, rather than threatened, established routes to craft learning, such as apprenticeships.

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“…In the eighteenth century, some craft guilds lost their old, privileged position in design and quality construction. 83 Retailers, architects, carriage makers, and upholsterers became crucial links between supply and demand, especially by subcontracting craftsmen who would previously have probably negotiated independently with the customer.…”

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Retail growth and consumer changes in a declining urban economy: Antwerp (1650–1750)

Blondé¹,

Damme

2010

The Economic History Review

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This article examines the interplay between retail changes and transformations in the material culture of Antwerp, a provincial town in the southern Netherlands. We argue that major changes in the eighteenth‐century material culture and retail sector were not significantly linked to preconditions of economic growth and urbanization. The Antwerp ‘retail paradox’ is that of a shrinking economic horizon running parallel to material culture and retail transformations, usually connected to expanding urban economies and societies. Changing retail and consumer practices explain the growing and prospering retail sector, rather than a growing economy.

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Technologies of Learning

Cited by 36 publications

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One counter and your own account: redefining illicit labour in early modern Antwerp

One counter and your own account: redefining illicit labour in early modern Antwerp

Learning a Craft from Books

Retail growth and consumer changes in a declining urban economy: Antwerp (1650–1750)

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