The rise and decline of Holland's economy : merchant capitalism and the labour market /
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| Author / Creator: | Zanden, J. L. van |
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| Imprint: | Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1993. |
| Description: | xii, 186 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1444156 |
Table of Contents:
- I. An economic theory of merchant capitalism. 1. Merchant capitalism. 2. Marx's analysis of industrial capitalism. 3. The interpretation of merchant capitalism. 4. From merchant capitalism to industrial capitalism
- II. The rise of Holland in the late Middle Ages and early modern period. 2. Three demographic theories. 3. Holland's demographic development. 4. The rise of Holland, 1350-1580. 5. Holland's golden age
- III. Immigration and the labour market in Amsterdam in the seventeenth century / J. L. Van Zanden and A. Knotter. 2. Immigrants and their occupations. 3. Formal and informal preferences. 4. Regional specialization: the structure. 5. Regional specialization: the process
- IV. Forced labour in the periphery: The V.O.C. in the Moluccas. 2. Cloves: the Middle Moluccas. 3. Nutmeg and mace: the Banda Islands. 4. The monopoly in cloves, nutmeg, and mace
- V. The slave trade, slavery, and the plantation economy in Suriname. 2. The Republic's slave trade. 3. The plantation economy in Suriname. 4. The decline of the plantation economy: the debate. 5. The decline of the plantation economy and the abolition of the slave trade
- VI. An economic interpretation of proto-industry. 2. The model. 3. Case study: Twente in the period 1830-1850. 4. The geographical distribution of proto-industry in the Netherlands. 5. The dynamics: the separation between industry and subsistence agriculture
- VII. Wages and the cost of living, 1600-1850. 2. The nominal wages. 3. Bread prices according to the assize. 4. The real wage. 5. A further analysis of the cost of living in Holland
- VIII. The economic structure of merchant capitalism and the development of the Dutch economy between 1825 and 1855. 2. The revival of merchant capitalism. 3. The transition to industrial capitalism. 4. Case Study: sugar refining
- IX. Seasonal migrant labour and the development of Holland's labour market system. 2. The origin of seasonal migrant labour. 3. The growth of seasonal migrant labour after 1670. 4. The function of seasonal labour in 'pull' and 'push' regions. 5. The disappearance of seasonal migrant labour after 1850.