State Corporatism and Proto-Industry: The Württemberg Black Forest, 1580-1797: The Wurttemberg Black Forest, 1580-1797 (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time)

State Corporatism and Proto-Industry: The Württemberg Black Forest, 1580-1797: The Wurttemberg Black Forest, 1580-1797 (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time)

by SheilaghC.Ogilvie (Author)

Synopsis

State Corporatism and Proto-Industry focuses on an industrial countryside in south-west Germany, where a dense worsted industry dominated the rural economy from 1580 to 1800. This is an example of 'proto-industry', the dense, export-oriented rural manufacturing which arose throughout Europe before factory industrialization. But although the Wurttemberg worsted industry possessed all the features of a classic proto-industry, closer scrutiny throws doubt on basic assumptions about European proto-industrialization. In this book, Sheilagh Ogilvie shows that proto-industries did not break down traditional society. Instead, corporate institutions such as guilds, merchant companies, village communities and manorial systems retained enormous power. This was a result of 'state corporatism': the expanding early modern state granted privileges to favoured groups in return for fiscal and regulatory co-operation. As Ogilvie shows, these corporate privileges profoundly constrained both individual decisions and economic development.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 539
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03 Jul 1997

ISBN 10: 0521372097
ISBN 13: 9780521372091
Book Overview: This book illustrates how social institutions affected the economic development of rural communities.
Prizes: Joint winner for Gyorgi Ranki Biennial Prize 1998.

Media Reviews
'... [this is] a work of rigorous scholarship which locates the evidence from the Black Forest within a broader European framework. It is only on the basis of studies such as this that the institutional determinants of long-term growth in Continental Europe will be understood more clearly.' Labour History Review
State Corporatism and Proto-Industry...greatly advances our understanding of the development of the European economy in the crucial seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ...a powerful new perspective on the fascinatingly diverse emergence of pre-factory industrialization. Robert S. DuPlessis, Canadian Jrnl of History
...solidly argued study Dennis Frey, Jr., German Studies Review
...provocative and, ultimately, convincing. State Corporatism and Proto-Industry should be required for all economic and social historians of early modern Europe. Thomas Max Safley, Journal of Modern History