The rise and decline of Holland's economy : merchant capitalism and the labour market
Offers three themes - an account of research on the labour market in Holland in the early modern period, an account of development of the economy/development of the labour market in the same period, and an economic interpretation of merchant capitalism in terms of Marxist historiography.
eBook, English, ©1993
Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, Manchester, UK, New York, ©1993
History
1 online resource (xii, 186 pages) : illustrations, map
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An economic theory of merchant capitalism; the rise of Holland in the late Middle Ages and early modern period; immigration and the labour market in Amsterdam in the 17th century; forced labour in the periphery - the VOC in the Moluccas; the slave trade, slavery and the plantation economy in Surinam; an economic interpretation of proto-industry; wages and the cost of living, 1600-1850; the economic structure of merchant capitalism and the development of the Dutch economy between 1825 and 1855; seasonal migrant labour and the development of Holland's labour market system.
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