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Apprenticeship and Training in Premodern England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2008

PATRICK WALLIS
PATRICK WALLIS*
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Lecturer in Economic History, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, UK. E-mail: p.h.wallis@lse.ac.uk.
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Abstract

This article reexamines the economics of premodern apprenticeship in England. I present new data showing that a high proportion of apprenticeships in seventeenth-century London ended before the term of service was finished. I then propose a new account of how training costs and repayments were distributed over the apprenticeship contract such that neither master nor apprentice risked significant loss from early termination. This new account fits both the characteristics of premodern apprenticeship and what is known about the acquisition of skills in modern and premodern societies.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 68 , Issue 3 , September 2008 , pp. 832 - 861
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