Open AccessCarrière en concurrentie in een culturele sector. De Amsterdamse boekhandel, 1580-1800
Author(s) -
Claartje Rasterhoff
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
de zeventiende eeuw cultuur in de nederlanden in interdisciplinair perspectief
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2212-7402
pISSN - 0921-142X
DOI - 10.18352/dze.67
Subject(s) - art , humanities
Surprisingly, career opportunities for Amsterdam booksellers were relatively low at the peak of the Golden Age. The circumstances in this growth phase were propitious, but the survival chances of the average firm were not. Competition was so strong that both new and existing firms had trouble getting by. Only by the time domestic demand stagnated, around 1660, did survival chances augment again, due to the changes in the division of labor and a decline in the number of new firms.
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