Journeymen Migration and Settlement in Eighteenth-century Holland

P.J. Groot; R. Schalk

doi:10.1017/S0268416022000157

Journeymen Migration and Settlement in Eighteenth-century Holland

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Abstract

Many crafts in premodern Europe depended on migratory journeymen. Little is known about these workers, or how craft guilds and urban authorities affected their movement. By employing novel data on thousands of journeymen from different crafts and cities in Holland, we provide the first systematic overview of journeymen migration and settlement patterns in The Dutch Republic. We find that migration and settlement patterns differed significantly by occupational sector, marital status, and skill level. The stance of urban authorities towards migrants significantly affected settlement patterns as well. This interrelation of group-level characteristics, craft guilds, and urban regulation demonstrates the significance of examining these elements in tandem.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	199-232
Number of pages	34
Journal	Continuity and Change
Volume	37
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416022000157
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
With courtesy of René van Weeren and Tine de Moor. Dataset Ja, ik wil-project (unpublished), Research Team Institutions for Collective Action, Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University. This dataset will be accessible in due time via www.collective-action.info/ja-ik-wil/dataset and is a result of the ‘Ja, ik wil!’-project, part of the VIDI-project ‘Nature or nurture? A search for the institutional and biological determinants of life expectancy in Europe during the early modern period’ funded by the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) (276–53-008).

Funding Information:
This study is part of the research program Sustainable Cooperation – Road-maps to Resilient Societies (SCOOP). The authors are grateful to the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) for funding this research in the context of its 2017 Gravitation Program (grant number 024.003.025).

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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press.

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