TY - JOUR
T1 - Failure or flexibility? Apprenticeship training in premodern Europe
AU - Schalk, Ruben
AU - Wallis, Patrick
AU - Crowston, Clare
AU - Lemercier, Claire
PY - 2017/8/1
Y1 - 2017/8/1
N2 - Pre-industrial apprenticeship is often considered more stable than its nineteenth- and twentieth-century counterparts, apparently because of the more durable relationships between masters and apprentices. Nevertheless, recent studies have suggested that many of those who started apprenticeships did not finish them. New evidence about more than 7,000 contracts across several cities in three countries finds that, for a number of reasons, a substantial minority of youths entering apprenticeship contracts failed to complete them. By allowing premature exits, cities and guilds sustained labor markets by lowering the risks of entering long training contracts. Training flexibility was a pragmatic response to labor-market tensions.
AB - Pre-industrial apprenticeship is often considered more stable than its nineteenth- and twentieth-century counterparts, apparently because of the more durable relationships between masters and apprentices. Nevertheless, recent studies have suggested that many of those who started apprenticeships did not finish them. New evidence about more than 7,000 contracts across several cities in three countries finds that, for a number of reasons, a substantial minority of youths entering apprenticeship contracts failed to complete them. By allowing premature exits, cities and guilds sustained labor markets by lowering the risks of entering long training contracts. Training flexibility was a pragmatic response to labor-market tensions.
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U2 - 10.1162/JINH_a_01123
DO - 10.1162/JINH_a_01123
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85047216815
SN - 0022-1953
VL - 48
SP - 131
EP - 158
JO - Journal of Interdisciplinary History
JF - Journal of Interdisciplinary History
IS - 2
ER -