Journeymen Migration and Settlement in Eighteenth-century Holland

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Journeymen Migration and Settlement in Eighteenth-century Holland
 
Groot, P.J.; Schalk, R.
(2022) Continuity and Change, volume 37, issue 2, pp. 199 - 232
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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 ... read more
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Keywords: Europe, General Social Sciences, History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416022000157
ISSN: 1469-218X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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 Dataset Ja, ik wil-project (unpublished), Research Team Institutions for Collective Action, Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University.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). Publisher Copyright: Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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