Learning on the Shop Floor

Apprenticeship or vocational training is a subject of lively debate. Economic historians tend to see apprenticeship as a purely economic phenomenon, as an incomplete contract in need of legal and institutional enforcement mechanisms. The contributors to this volume have adopted a broader perspective. They regard learning on the shop floor as a complex social and cultural process, to be situated in an ever-changing historical context. The results are surprising. The authors convincingly show that research on apprenticeship and learning on the shop floor is intimately associated with migration patterns, family economy and household strategies, gender perspectives, urban identities and general educational and pedagogical contexts.

Bert De Munck is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, where he teaches social and economic history of the early modern period, history and social theory, and European ethnology and heritage. His research focuses on the history of craft guilds, 'social capital' and vocational education.

Steven L. Kaplan is Professor of European History at Cornell University. He published Les ventres de Paris. Pouvoir et approvisionnement dans la France d'Ancien RTgime (Fayard, 1988), Le meilleur pain du monde. Les boulangers de Paris au XVIIIe siFcle (Fayard, 1996), La fin des corporations (Fayard, 2001) and (as editor, with Philippe Minard) La France, malade du corporatisme(2004).

Hugo Soly is Professor of Early Modern History and Director of the Centre for Historical Research into Urban Transformations at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. His writings focus on five major areas û urban development, poverty and poor relief, 'deviant' behaviour, industrialization, and craft guilds. Currently he is working on perceptions of work in pre-industrial Europe.

'Learning on the Shop Floor' in Historical Perspective	p. 3
Between School and Household
Apprentices, Servants and Other Workers: Apprenticeship in Japan	p. 35
From School to Workshop: Pre-training and Apprenticeship in Old Regime France	p. 46
Between Contract and Practice
Apprenticeship and Guild Control in the Netherlands, c.1450-1800	p. 65
Construction and Reproduction: The Training and Skills of Antwerp Cabinetmakers in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries	p. 85
Learning by Brewing: Apprenticeship and the English Brewing Industry in the Late Victorian and Early Edwardian Period	p. 111
Social and Cultural Contexts
Silk Weaver and Purse Maker Apprentices in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Vienna	p. 133
Social Mobility and Apprenticeship in Late Medieval Flanders	p. 158
Apprentices in the German and Austrian Crafts in Early Modern Times: Apprentices as Wage Earners?	p. 179
Conclusion
Reconsidering Apprenticeship: Afterthoughts	p. 203
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