Chapter Transferring useful knowledge. Quality mechanisms in European apprenticeship

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, implyin...

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Chapter Transferring useful knowledge. Quality mechanisms in European apprenticeship
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Human Capital
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Artisans
Technology
Guild
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