Apprenticeship and training in premodern England

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S002205070800065X
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 832-861
• 关键词: montreal; guilds; LABOR; adolescents; CONTRACTS; London; Europe; paris; FIRMS; MODEL

摘要

This article reexamines the economics of premodern apprenticeship in England. I present new data showing that a high proportion of apprenticeships in seventeenth-century London ended before the term of service was finished. I then propose a new account of how training costs and repayments were distributed over the apprenticeship contract such that neither master nor apprentice risked significant loss from early termination. This new account fits both the characteristics of premodern apprenticeship and what is known about the acquisition of skills in modem and premodern societies.