Guilds in the Middle Ages

Name: Guilds in the Middle Ages
Author: Renard, Georges François

Renard, Georges François

Guilds -- History

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                                GUILDS
                                  IN
                            THE MIDDLE AGES

                                  BY
                            GEORGES RENARD

                             TRANSLATED BY
                             DOROTHY TERRY
                  AND EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
                             G. D. H. COLE

                            [Illustration]

                                LONDON
                        G. BELL AND SONS, LTD.
                                 1918

PREFACE

This short book is the first part of a larger work by M. Georges
Renard, the well-known French economic writer. The second part of the
original deals with the modern Trade Union movement, and the part here
reproduced is complete in itself.

G. D. H. COLE.

_October 1918._

CONTENTS

                                                              PAGE

 INTRODUCTION. By G. D. H. Cole                                 ix

 CHAPTER I

 ORIGIN AND GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION                            1

 CHAPTER II

 THE ORGANIZATION OF THE GUILDS                                  6

 1. Various types.--2. The simple Guild and the complex
 Guild.--3. The half-democratic Guild.--4. The
 apprentice.--5. The _compagnon_.--6. Women in the
 Guilds.--7. The capitalistic Guild.

 CHAPTER III

 THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE GUILDS                               27

 CHAPTER IV

 THE AIMS AND METHODS OF THE GUILDS                             32

 1. Economic aim.--2. Social and moral aim; the
 fraternity.--3. Political aim. Classification of the
 Guilds; their internal disputes.

 CHAPTER V

 THE MERITS AND DEFECTS OF THE GUILD SYSTEM                     68

 CHAPTER VI

 EXTERNAL CAUSES OF DECAY                                       73

 1. Change in economic conditions. The extension of
 the markets and large-scale production; division of
 producers into classes; _compagnonnage_.--2. Change in
 intellectual conditions. The Renaissance. The
 Reformation.--3. Change in political conditions. The
 central  authority is driven to interfere: (_a_) through
 political  interest; (_b_) through fiscal interest;
 (_c_) through public interest.

 CHAPTER VII

 INTERNAL CAUSES OF DECAY                                      107

 1. Division at the heart of the Guilds: (_a_) separation
 of the members; (_b_) subjection of inferiors to
 superiors.--2. Division between the Craft Guilds.--3.
 Vexatious regulations.

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