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  • List of Figures and Tables; Preface Introduction Chapter 1. 'Learning on the Shop Floor' in Historical Perspective; Bert De Munck and Hugo Soly PART I: BETWEEN SCHOOL AND HOUSEHOLD Chapter 2. Apprentices, Servants and Other Workers: Apprenticeship in Japan; Mary Louise Nagata Chapter 3. From School to Workshop: Pre-training and Apprenticeship in Old Regime France; Clare Crowston PART II: BETWEEN CONTRACT AND PRACTICE Chapter 4. Apprenticeship and Guild Control in the Netherlands, c.1450-1800; Karel Davids Chapter 5. Construction and Reproduction: The Training and Skills of Antwerp Cabinetmakers in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; Bert De Munck Chapter 6. Learning by Brewing: Apprenticeship and the English Brewing Industry in the Late Victorian and Early Edwardian Period; Jonathan Reinarz PART III: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS Chapter 7. Silk Weaver and Purse Maker Apprentices in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Vienna; Annemarie Steidl Chapter 8. Social Mobility and Apprenticeship in Late Medieval Flanders; Peter Stabel Chapter 9. Apprentices in the German and Austrian Crafts in Early Modern Times: Apprentices as Wage Earners?; Reinhold Reith Conclusion Chapter 10. Reconsidering Apprenticeship: Afterthoughts; Steven L. Kaplan Notes on Contributors; Index