How apprenticeship transformed premodern England | Coffee break research at LSE
Update: 2025-03-11
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Contributor(s): Professor Patrick Wallis | For more than a century, apprenticeship in England has been in crisis. Brief moments of optimistic expansion have been punctured by political and economic shocks. Yet it was not always so. Before 1800, apprenticeship was a thriving and vital part of the economy. Drawing on his new book, "The Market for Skill", Professor Patrick Wallis describes how apprenticeship helped transform England from a backwards, rural economy and laid the foundations for the first Industrial Revolution."The Market for Skill" by Patrick Wallis (Princeton University Press, April 2025) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691265315/the-market-for-skill?srsltid=AfmBOooOXKCKugyMP3asqUidEd70podU1xnjwQEOSFs5rIxAD3oU-YvRPatrick Wallis is a professor of Economic History at LSE and Head of the Department of Economic History: https://www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-History/People/Faculty-and-teachers/Wallis/Professor-Patrick-Wallis
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