List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Manufacture in town and country
before the factory Maxine Berg, Pat Hudson and Michael Sonenscher; 2.
Political economy and the principles of manufacture 1700-1800 Maxine Berg;
Part I. The Structure of Manufacture: 3. Variations in industrial structure
in pre-industrial Languedoc J. K. J. Thomson; 4. Seasonal fluctuations and
social division of labour: rural linen production in the Osnabrück and
Bielefeld regions and the urban woollen industry in the Niederlausitz,
c.1770-c.1850 Jürgen Schlumbohm; 5. From manor to mill: the West Riding in
transition Pat Hudson; Part II. 'Work' and 'Wages': 6. Work and wages in
Paris in the eighteenth century Michael Sonenscher; 7. Embezzlement,
industry and the law in England, 1500-1800 John Styles; Index.

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