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Protoindustry and the Problem of Capitalism as a Concept: Response to Jean H. Quataert

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Charles F. Sabel
Charles F. Sabel
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 33 , Spring 1988 , pp. 30 - 37
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Copyright © International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 1988

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1. Sabel, Charles F. and Zeitlin, Jonathan, “Historical Alternatives to Mass Production: Politics, Markets and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Industrialization,” Past and Present 108 (08 1985): 133–76CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Sabel, Charles F. and Zeitlin, Jonathan, “Report of the Groupe de travail internationale sur les alternatives historique a la production de masse,” MSH Informations 54 (1987): 24–27.Google Scholar For a parallel discussion of the issues discussed here, see Unger, Roberto M., Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task (Cambridge, 1987), 101–17.Google Scholar For criticism of Sabel/Zeitlin, see “Groupe de travail,” 24–27.

2. See, for example, Mendels, Franklin, “Proto-Industrialization: The First Phase of the Industrialization Process,” The Journal of Economic History 32 (1972): 241–61CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Kriedte, Peter, Medick, Hans, and Schlumbohm, Jurgen, trans. Schempp, Beate, Industrialization before Industrialization: Rural Industry in the Genesis of Capitalism (Cambridge, 1981).Google Scholar

3. See her discussion of Japan and the Caux.

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16. For further discussion of these possibilities, see Sabel, Charles F. “Changing Models of Economic Efficiency and their Implications for Industrialization in the Third World,” in Development Democracy and the Art of Trespassing: Essays in Honor of Albert O. Hirschman, ed. Foxley, Alejandro et al. (Notre Dame, 1986), 27–55.Google Scholar

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