" The results of the Russian-Swedish research team] are presented
an exemplary fashion and rigorously edited ... Whoever is
interested in the industrial development of European economy and
society should read this book." . Vierteljahrschrift fur Sozial-
und Wirtschaftsgeschichte
..". very well written, clearly arranged and interesting and
easy to read ... an important study." . Eva Osterberg, Professor of
History, University of Lund.
The title of this book has a double meaning: on the one hand, it
deals with two very different societies both of which made iron in
the early modern period. On the other hand, iron "made" these
societies: the needs of iron production and the resistance to these
demands from local peasant communities gave the societies a special
kind of cohesion and rationality.
This volume presents the findings of a joint team of Swedish and
Russian scholars examining the social organization of work in early
modern iron industry and their respective societies. The comparison
was carried out against the backdrop of the international
discussion on proto-industrialization, its prerequisites and
consequences. There has, however, been a certain bias in much of
that debate, the focus being mainly on Western Europe, particularly
on Britain, and on textile trades. This book offers an important
contribution to the debate in that it widens the perspective by
discussing Northern and Eastern Europe and by studying the iron
industry. More particularly it examines actual production
processes, the organization of work, social conflict, questions of
ownership and its evolution, as well as the diffusion and
organization of technical knowledge. The comparative approach is
consistently applied throughout, with each chapter closely
integrating the results relating to the two selected geographical
areas, thus showing ways of solving some of the problems arising
from comparative history.
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