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Newcomers, Migrants, Surgeons: Making Career in the Amsterdam Surgeons’ Guild of the Eighteenth Century

Dissertation: Born abroad, studied here: a historical and psychological account of migrant doctors integrating Newcomers, Migrants, Surgeons: Making Career in the Amsterdam Surgeons’ Guild of the Eighteenth Century

Although many crafts in premodern Europe depended on a pool of migratory journeymen, very little is known about these workers, or about how craft guilds and urban authorities affected their movement and settlement. This papers employs novel data on thousands of migrant journeymen in three cities of Holland. By comparing different crafts and cities we provide the first systematic overview of journeymen migration and settlement patterns in The Dutch Republic. We find that migration and settlement patterns differed significantly by occupational sector, marital status, and skill level. More importantly, the stance of urban authorities towards migrants, as reflected by its decrees, significantly affected settlement patterns, potentially explaining why many migrant journeymen opted for Amsterdam and The Hague but few for Haarlem. This suggests that urban regulation goes a long way in explaining the choice of destination for skilled labourers.

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the migration and settlement patterns of migrant journeymen from different crafts in eighteenth-century Holland.

• Collected during project
• Data collected added to existing collection

• Archival

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• Excel
• SPSS
• R

• Structured
• Unstructured

• Dutch

01/01/1751

01/01/1776

01/01/1693

01/01/1752

01/01/1761

01/01/1766

The Dutch Republic (corresponding to current-day Netherlands)

The Hague

Haarlem

Amsterdam

01/11/2019

01/11/2020

None known.