{"product_id":"9780521025843","title":"State Corporatism and Proto-Industry : The Württemberg Black Forest, 1580-1797 (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time)","description":"\u003cp\u003eState Corporatism and Proto-Industry focuses on an industrial countryside in south-west Germany, where a dense worsted industry dominated the rural economy from 1580 to 1800. This is an example of 'proto-industry', the dense, export-oriented rural manufacturing which arose throughout Europe before factory industrialization. But although the Württemberg worsted industry possessed all the features of a classic proto-industry, closer scrutiny throws doubt on basic assumptions about European proto-industrialization. In this book, Sheilagh Ogilvie shows that proto-industries did not break down traditional society. Instead, corporate institutions such as guilds, merchant companies, village communities and manorial systems retained enormous power. This was a result of 'state corporatism': the expanding early modern state granted privileges to favoured groups in return for fiscal and regulatory co-operation. As Ogilvie shows, these corporate privileges profoundly constrained both individual decisions and economic development.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49703967391992,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":109.66,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9780521025843-1.jpg?v=1783598352","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9780521025843","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}