Iron-making Societies
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Iron-making Societies

Early Industrial Development in Sweden and Russia, 1600-1900

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Iron-making Societies

Early Industrial Development in Sweden and Russia, 1600-1900

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The title of this book has a double meaning: on the one hand, it deals with two very different societies both of which made iron in the early modern period. On the other hand, iron "made" these societies: the needs of iron production and the resistance to these demands from local peasant communities gave the societies a special kind of cohesion and rationality.

This volume presents the findings of a joint team of Swedish and Russian scholars examining the social organization of work in early modern iron industry and their respective societies. The comparison was carried out against the backdrop of the international discussion on proto-industrialization, its prerequisites and consequences. There has, however, been a certain bias in much of that debate, the focus being mainly on Western Europe, particularly on Britain, and on textile trades. This book offers an important contribution to the debate in that it widens the perspective by discussing Northern and Eastern Europe and by studying the iron industry. More particularly it examines actual production processes, the organization of work, social conflict, questions of ownership and its evolution, as well as the diffusion and organization of technical knowledge. The comparative approach is consistently applied throughout, with each chapter closely integrating the results relating to the two selected geographical areas, thus showing ways of solving some of the problems arising from comparative history.

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Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
1998
ISBN
9781782388036
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Modern History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Iron-Making Societies
  2. Table of Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. List of Abbreviations
  7. Part I
  8. Chapter One: Introduction
  9. Chapter Two: Iron-Making in Peasant Communities
  10. Chapter Three: The Social Organisation of Work at Mines, Furnaces and Forges
  11. Part II
  12. Chapter Four: The Social Organisation of Peasant Work
  13. Chapter Five: Charcoal
  14. Chapter Six: Households, Families and Iron-Making
  15. Part III
  16. Chapter Seven: Community and Property
  17. Chapter Eight: Knowledge
  18. Chapter Nine: Iron-Making Societies
  19. Glossary
  20. Notes on Contributors
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index