Gender, Guilds, and Work Identity
Perspectives from Sixteenth-Century Paris
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8940257 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carol L Loats (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15-15 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/286796 |
| OpenAlex | W2323321061 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
In the sixteenth century, Paris was a city known more for consumption and for commerce than for artisanal production. Nevertheless, the population of Paris included many who lived off their skills, producing objects for local markets. The image of Paris which prevails is that of a city whose artisans functioned within a rigid and closed system of guilds, a system controlled by the crown. Furthermore, Paris has a reputation as a city in which women had a few of their own guilds, in contrast to the all-male guilds of most European cities in the period.' In Europe more generally, household production has been widely discussed as an important form of organization of production in the medieval and early modern periods. In this form of economic organization the household was the basic unit of production, and the members of the household, including family members, apprentices in training, and servants, worked together, either in an independent shop or as part
Aesthetics · Art · Genealogy · Identity (music · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · European Political History Analysis · Gender Studies · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History
| Citations per year | 0.19 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2000 - 2015 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |