An Introduction to English Economic History And Theory volume V 1 Pt 1
An Introduction to English Economic History And Theory volume V 1 Pt 1
W J William James Ashley
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The relation of the craft gilds to the merchant gild is a still more difficult question. In many of the towns of Ger- many and the Netherlands a desperate struggle took place during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries between a burgher oligarchy, who monopolized the municipal govern- ment, and were still further strengthened in many cases by CHAP. IL] MERCHANT AND CRAFT GILDS. 79 union in a merchant gild, and the artisans organized in their craft gilds; the craftsmen fighting first for the ...right of having gilds of their own, and then for a share in the government of the town. These facts have been easily fitted into a symmetrical theory of industrial development ; the merchant gilds, it is said, were first formed for protection against feudal lords, but became exclusive, and so rendered necessary the formation of craft gilds ; and in the same way the craft gilds became exclusive afterwards, and the journeymen were compelled to form societies of their own for protection against the masters.
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