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See how medieval crafts unfold into modern industry and why labor matters in the dawn of the factory era.
This concise history traces the shift from craft gilds to factories, showing how apprenticeships, master crafts, and early unions shaped wages, work rules, and social change. It explains how new ideas, laws, and economic forces interacted to transform work and society.
- How craft guilds and fraternities organized workers and set terms of admission and work.
- What the Statute of Apprentices (1563) mandated for apprentices, masters, and disputes.
- How the idea of anticipatory production helped a rising industrial class and the move toward factories.
- The Great Death’s lasting impact on land use, enclosure, and labor practices.
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