The Background to the Statute of Artificers: The Genesis of Labour Policy, 1558–63

Woodward, Donald

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0289.1980.tb01152.x

Cited by 12 publications

(4 citation statements)

References 4 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…One of the earliest pieces of legislation, which came about after the breakout of the black death, was the "Ordinance of Laborers" legislation of 1349 that implemented a series of labor regulations and price controls to mitigate the problems of labor shortages after the plague (Craig 2007). Building on this legislation, the Elizabethan Statute of Artificers of 1563 prohibited conspiracies to raise wages and the first worker's associations formed in response to the legislation (Woodward 1980). Unions in Britain had effectively been repressed by the aristocracy and large employers (Curthoys 2004).…”

Section: Wage Bargainingmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Reform Strategy for the UK

Sanders

Stenkula

Dunstan

et al. 2020

The Entrepreneurial Society

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this chapter we outline a reform strategy to promote an entrepreneurial society in the UK. To put it in the words of the Varieties of Capitalism framework, the UK today represents a distinct liberal market economy with a deregulated environment, flexible labor markets, well-funded elite universities, and strong protection of intellectual property rights. Overall, the entrepreneurial ecosystem is supportive, but bottlenecks remain regarding radical innovation, export orientation, and informal investment. To address these shortcomings, the UK should aim at strengthening the All authors acknowledge financial support from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 649378. László Szerb and Balázs Páger also acknowledge support from the National Scientific Research Fund of Hungary (OTKA/NKFI grant no. 120289, titled as Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness investigations in Hungary based on the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys 2017-2019). Mikael Stenkula also gratefully acknowledges financial support from Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius stiftelse and from the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation.

show abstract

Section: Wage Bargainingmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Reform Strategy for the UK

Sanders

Stenkula

Dunstan

et al. 2020

The Entrepreneurial Society

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The institutional roots of a market economy in Britain can be found in the later middle ages and in the early modern period; the stimulus provided to innovations in governance by such events as the Black Death (Palmer, 1993) and the dissolution of the monasteries have been extensively documented (Woodward, 1980). England already had a mature national legal system at this stage, the significance of which for its economic development is only now beginning to be understood.…”

Section: The Common Law: Britain and Americamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Legal Framework of Employment Relations

Deakin¹,

Njoya²

2008

The SAGE Handbook of Industrial Relations

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The aim of this paper is to reassess the place of labour law in the wider area of employment relations research and to argue the case for labour law's importance to social scientists. We give an analytical account of the principal institutional features of labour law as a form of legal regulation, from an interdisciplinary perspective which takes into account both the internal workings of the labour law system and the social and economic context within which it has evolved. We analyze, in the manner of an internal or 'immanent' critique, the categories which are generally used within labour law discourse to describe the social and economic relations of employment; account for their emergence and evolution in historical terms; consider the origins of their diversity across different national systems; and look at future prospects for convergence or divergence.

show abstract

“…In England, for instance, the power of former manorial lords over the local population lingered on for much longer, and national legislation -such as the Ordinance of Labourers (1349), the Statute of Labourers (1351), the Statute of Cambridge (1388/89) and the Statute of Artificers (1563) -restricted labour mobility and determined maximum wage rates. 86 Although these statutes were not always fully or effectively enforced in practice, they still affected the position of labourers and reduced their possibilities and freedom. In general, labourers and servants in England were subjected to the authority of their master, and to all kinds of restrictions and elements of indenture.…”

Section: O N C L U S I O N Smentioning

confidence: 99%

Rural wage labour in the sixteenth-century Low Countries: an assessment of the importance and nature of wage labour in the countryside of Holland, Guelders and Flanders

Bavel¹

2005

Cont. Change

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The rise of wage labour in the countryside forms a fundamental element in the transition to a modern, capitalist economy and society. Hard data on this development, however, are scarce. Here, the importance of wage labour around the middle of the sixteenth century is reconstructed for three regions in the Low Countries. This reconstruction shows not only a high importance of wage labour, between a quarter to almost 60 per cent of rural labour input, but also strong regional differences. These differences appear not to be connected to urbanization or to the rise of one or another sector in the rural economy, but to the regional social and institutional framework in which the economy developed.

show abstract

The Background to the Statute of Artificers: The Genesis of Labour Policy, 1558–63

Cited by 12 publications

References 4 publications

A Reform Strategy for the UK

A Reform Strategy for the UK

The Legal Framework of Employment Relations

Rural wage labour in the sixteenth-century Low Countries: an assessment of the importance and nature of wage labour in the countryside of Holland, Guelders and Flanders

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About