Skill acquisition and career progression in the preindustrial iron industry. Liérganes and La Cavada, 1764-1800
1. Introduction Occupational training in preindustrial economies took place primarily through practice in the workplace itself (De Munck and Soly, 2007; Wallis, 2019). Most of our knowledge about the organization of training processes in trades comes from studies addressing guild-based apprenticeship in workshops, mainly through the analysis of apprenticeship contracts (Wallis, 2008; De Munck, 2010, […]
