Abstract

This chapter engages with Clark's ideas in a comparative study of labour relations and the co-operation in production in pre-industrial brickmaking in Western Europe, Russia and Northern India between 1500 and 2000. It analyses the evidence of different pre-industrial trajectories of human capital formation in the organisation of the labour process in manual brickmaking across the Eurasian landmass, with a special eye to mechanisms for the reduction of error-rates and to the cooperation in production along the lines of a set of ideas recently put forward by Gregory Clark. Equal pre-industrial labour force characteristics might have produced different results in combination with the introduction of modern production relations in some cases, and similar results in others. Mapping this variety might enable us to isolate the importance of longer-term and short-term factors in explaining different outcomes in different parts of the world. Keywords:brickmaking process; Eurasia; Gregory Clark; labour force; labour relations; Northern India; Russia; Western Europe

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