State Corporatism and Proto-Industry

The Württemberg Black Forest, 1580–1797

Sheilagh C. Ogilvie (University of Cambridge), Richard Smith, Jan de Vries , Paul Johnson

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English

Cambridge University Press
20 April 2006

European history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Industrialisation & industrial history; Economics & Business

Series: Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time

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 Württemberg 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.

By: Sheilagh C. Ogilvie (University of Cambridge)
Series edited by: Richard Smith, Jan de Vries, Paul Johnson, Keith Wrightson
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 33
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 801g
ISBN: 9780521025843
ISBN 10: 0521025842
Series: Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time
Pages: 540
Publication Date: 20 April 2006
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The proto-industrialization debate; 3. Social institutions in early modern Württemberg; 4. The Black Forest worsted industry; 5. The finances of the proto-industrial guild; 6. Labour supply and entry restrictions; 7. Production volume and output controls; 8. Population growth and the family; 9. Corporate groups and economic development; 10. Corporatism and conflict; 11. Proto-industry and social institutions in Europe; 12. Conclusion; Bibliography, Index.

Reviews for State Corporatism and Proto-Industry: The Württemberg Black Forest, 1580–1797

'... [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