Patten 1978: Londres 1500-1700 - ocupações e economia

PATTEN J, English towns, 1500-1700. Folkestone [England]: Archon Books 1978.
https://archive.org/details/englishtowns15000000patt/page/22/mode/2up

Chapter 4, Town Occupations and Town Economies - London (pp. 182-189)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14d9gtrmZ7ev6gv-wXiCILBj7sVgkimVSQmtkFRT28a8/edit?usp=sharing

Fonte: Financial Times

https://www.ft.com/content/51705e73-bfa2-43ee-b288-98d4773f3fae

(..) The sixteenth and seventeenth century was the period in which London permanently consolidated its position in the country, so that not even the growth experienced by the great centres of the industrial revolution like Birmingham or Manchester could ever come near it. It was also during the period that London rose from being merely the most important town in England to becoming one of the great European cities, on a par with Paris or Naples. (..)

(..) London was important for its essential marketing facilities, its refining and entrepot role, and specialized luxury manufactures that were unique to it, but also for the growth of a new mode of trade occupation, the shop and shopkeeper, and for the growth of a new strata of activity, the services and professions.

The increasingly specialized retail shop, slowly disentangling itself from craft and manufacturing activities, was a creation of sixteenth-century London. From there it was to spread to the rest of the country. There had been places that were earlier called shops, letting down boards and awnings from house fronts on which goods were displayed, as well as being the ‘workshops’ from which the term ‘shop’ is undoubtedly a contraction. In most sixteenth-century provincial towns such places operated as retail outlets, mostly on market day; for the rest of the time they were concerned with making and fabricating in the back regions. (..)

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