Protecting Merchants
Guilds and Commercial Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8940316 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gail Bossenga (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 693-693 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/286553 |
| OpenAlex | W2328965101 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
To think of the word guild is almost always to conjure up an image of artisans engaged in small-scale, highly regulated production for local markets. Frequently labeled precapitalist and anti-entrepreneurial, these institutions are indicted for fostering high labor costs, impeding technical innovation, and thwarting capital accumulation.' Because guilds placed a corporate straitjacket over the economy, capitalism, it is argued, could develop only outside and in opposition to these archaic institutions. Merchants had to free the production of goods from the shackles of the guild system so that commerce and industry could continue to expand.2 The process of anticorporate capitalist development, it is fre
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,34 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2019 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |