The Codification of Techniques: Between Bureaucracy and the Markets in Early Modern Europe from a Global Perspective (April 2021)
Hilaire-Pérez, Liliane (Author)
Technology and Culture
Volume: 62
Issue: 2
Pages: 442-466
Edition Details: Special Issue: Technology Is Global: The Useful and Reliable Knowledge Debate
Language: English
The term "technology" has routinely been used to mean the application of science to industry. By contrast, "artisanal technology" questions the current epistemological status of practices as sources of abstraction and the synthetic activities of the mind. This article shows the connections between bureaucracy and the codification of useful knowledge—or technique—across Europe, in various channels of knowledge transmission, before focusing on British artisanal records. Artisan-entrepreneurs, facing expanding markets and differentiated demands, were arguably crucial to the birth of new rationalities of labor. Theirs was a path to technological knowledge rooted in the merchant economy, an alternative to technocracy and the rise of engineering sciences. The article thus shows that "technology" as an abstraction of technical activity belonged to the craft culture.
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