Craft guilds, apprenticeship, and technological change in preindustrial Europe

Journal of Economic History

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 684-713

  Epstein, S R ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/S0022050700021124     Document Type: Article

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