Ekaterina E. Burtseva

Associate Professor, PhD in History, Associate Professor of the Department journalism of the Tula State University

Tula State University

(Tula, Russia)

Abstract. The article is devoted to the history of the workshop system of craft workers in the cities of the Tula province at the turn of the 19th – 20th centuries. It highlights the legal basis for the existence of craft societies. The paper considers the principles of the craft self-government bodies functioning. The work analyzes the essence of the workshop system itself and the prospects for its existence in the early 20th century. Using the example of the guild corporations of the cities of Tula and Belev that existed in the Tula province in the period under review, in which craft associations had a full form of management, the following issues have been studied: the organizational structure of the management of craft societies, the main areas of their work, the financial basis of activities, the representation of guild craftsmen in the bodies of the all-class urban public self-government. Depending on the form of assignment to guilds, artisans were subdivided into perpetual guild and temporary guild. The division of artisans on this basis was a kind of "split line" in the artisan environment and entailed an internal structural and social imbalance in the artisan society, since the eternal guilds were in a privileged position relative to the temporal guilds. The feature of the craft societies in the period under review was the dual nature of their organization: they were both class and professional associations. In the result of the study it has been found that as class associations shop craftsmen society experienced decline; and as professional ones they faced certain difficulties related to competition from factory enterprises as well as they had the potential for further existence and development.
Keywords: craft workers, workshop system, craft workers’ self-government, cities of the Tula province.

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For citation: Burtseva, VV 2020, ‘Workshop system and corporate craft workers self-administration in the cities of the Tula province on the turn of the xix – xx centuries’, Tula Scientific Bulletin. History. Linguistics, issue 4 (4), pp. 14-24, URL: http://tula-vestnik.ru/pdf/2020/vipusk_4_29_12_20.pdf (in Russ.)

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