Description: Using recent approaches in economic, social, labour and institutional history, this volume analyses guilds in the period 500-1700 AD.
Brief description: Jan Lucassen is a Senior Research Fellow at the IISG and Professor of International and Comparative Social History at the Free University in Amsterdam. He has published widely on comparative global labour history, including labour migrations, craftsmen's and journeymen's guilds, labour relations (in particular in the brick industry) and the monetization of remunerations.