Transferring useful knowledge: Quality mechanisms in European apprenticeship

Maarten Prak; Patrick Wallis

doi:10.36253/979-12-215-0092-9.11

Transferring useful knowledge: Quality mechanisms in European apprenticeship

Maarten Prak, Patrick Wallis

OGKG - Economic and Social History

The London School of Economics and Political Science

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Human capital is central to current debates about the sources of growth and divergence in the premodern economy. Apprenticeship, the key formal arrangement by which occupational skills were transferred in this period, has in the past often been associated with guild monopolies and exclusion, implying a drag on the accumulation of human capital. Several stimulating recent contributions have pointed to apprenticeship as a potentially important explanation for English or European advances in manufacturing and technology in the run up to industrialisation. In this paper, we explore mechanisms that helped improve quality among artisans. We focus on one in particular: the selection of training masters by apprentices.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	L’economia della conoscenza: Innovazione, produttività e crescita economica nei secoli XIII-XVIII / The Knowledge Economy: Innovation, Productivity and Economic Growth, 13th to 18th Century
Editors	Giampiero Nigro
Publisher	Firenze University Press
Pages	177-192
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0092-9.11
Publication status	Published - 2023

Keywords

Apprenticeship
Human Capital
England
Netherlands
Skill
Artisans
Technology
Guild

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Prak, M., & Wallis, P. (2023). Transferring useful knowledge: Quality mechanisms in European apprenticeship. In G. Nigro (Ed.), L’economia della conoscenza: Innovazione, produttività e crescita economica nei secoli XIII-XVIII / The Knowledge Economy: Innovation, Productivity and Economic Growth, 13th to 18th Century (pp. 177-192). Firenze University Press. https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0092-9.11

Prak, Maarten ; Wallis, Patrick. / Transferring useful knowledge : Quality mechanisms in European apprenticeship. L’economia della conoscenza: Innovazione, produttività e crescita economica nei secoli XIII-XVIII / The Knowledge Economy: Innovation, Productivity and Economic Growth, 13th to 18th Century . editor / Giampiero Nigro. Firenze University Press, 2023. pp. 177-192

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Prak M, Wallis P. Transferring useful knowledge: Quality mechanisms in European apprenticeship. In Nigro G, editor, L’economia della conoscenza: Innovazione, produttività e crescita economica nei secoli XIII-XVIII / The Knowledge Economy: Innovation, Productivity and Economic Growth, 13th to 18th Century . Firenze University Press. 2023. p. 177-192 doi: 10.36253/979-12-215-0092-9.11

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