Technology, skills and the pre-modern economy in the East and the West : essays dedicated to the memory of S.R. Epstein / edited by Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-343) and index.

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FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; LIST OF TABLES, FIGURES AND ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION; TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN CAPITAL FORMATION IN THE EAST AND WEST BEFORE THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION; Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden; Global History and Technology; Technology, Skills, and Science; Collective Invention; Technological Leadership and Clustering; Human Capital Formation; Circulation of Knowledge; Organisation of Labour; Comparative History and the Great Divergence; Conclusion; PART ONE; REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES; CHAPTER ONE.

TRANSFERRING TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE AND INNOVATING IN EUROPE, C.1200-C.1800Stephan R. Epstein; Introduction; Acquiring Experiential Knowledge; Collective Knowledge and Technical Heuristics; Knowledge Sharing; Predictability, Codification and Innovation; Drawings and Models as Heuristic Devices; Experimentation; Spatial Transfer of Technical Knowledge; Texts and Patents; Transferring Skilled Technicians: When and Why Did Craft Guilds Oppose Technical Innovation?; Transferring Skilled Technicians: How Did It Work?; Conclusions; CHAPTER TWO; APPRENTICESHIP AND INDUSTRIALIZATION IN INDIA, 1600-1930.

Tirthankar RoyCraft Culture in Early Modern India; Craft Culture and Apprenticeship in Colonial India; Apprenticeship and Modern Industry; Conclusion; CHAPTER THREE; SKILLS, 'GUILDS', AND DEVELOPMENT: ASKING EPSTEIN'S QUESTIONS TO EAST ASIAN INSTITUTIONS; Kenneth Pomeranz; Introduction; The Rise of Guilds in Late Imperial China: Trade-based and Native Place-based Organisations; Guild Functions, Economic and Otherwise; City and Countryside; Skill Formation and Technological Creativity; Did Guilds Obstruct Technical Learning?; Migration and Skill Diffusion in More Recent Times.

Skill Acquisition in Rural IndustriesJapan; Conclusion; PART TWO; INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES; CHAPTER FOUR; MEGA-STRUCTURES OF THE MIDDLE AGES: THE CONSTRUCTION OF RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS IN EUROPE AND ASIA, C.1000-1500*; Maarten Prak; Introduction; Church Building; The Workforce; Knowledge; Apprenticeship and Other Sources of Information; Conclusions; CHAPTER FIVE; THE TECHNOLOGY AND TEACHING OF SHIPBUILDING 1300-1800; Richard W. Unger; Introduction; Developments in Ship Design; East and West: Cross-fertilization of Techniques; Creation and Transfer of Knowledge.

Transferring Knowledge with the Written WordDisincentives for Technical Advance: Guilds and Market Structure; Incentives for Technical Advance: Guilds, Profits and Training; Conclusions; CHAPTER SIX; MOVING MACHINE-MAKERS: CIRCULATION OF KNOWLEDGE ON MACHINE-BUILDING IN CHINA AND EUROPE BETWEEN C. 1400 AND THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY; Karel Davids; Introduction; Circulation of Knowledge on Machine-making in China, Late Fourteenth -- Early Nineteenth Centuries; Circulation of Knowledge on Machine-making in Europe, Late Fourteenth -- Early Nineteenth Centuries.

Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy investigates, through regional studies and paired comparisons, how technological skills and knowledge were reproduced and disseminated in the advanced agrarian societies of China, India, Russia and Europe in the centuries before the Industrial Revolution.

English.

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