著者

宮沢 康人

出版者

教育史学会

雑誌

日本の教育史学 : 教育史学会紀要 (ISSN:03868982)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.11, pp.71-101, 1968-10-20

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The apprenticeship of craft unions which were the typical trade unions in the period of so called industrial capitalism has never been studied closely by researchers in the history of education, in spite of its important historical contribution. Accordingly, in this paper, we attempt to survey what we know about the craft unions' apprenticeship from the view point of the history of technical education. This paper falls into five parts aside from introduction, examining of preceding studies and conclusion. For the purpose of making clear the historical features of the craft unions' apprenticeship, we take into consideration the following items, (1) present conditions of apprenticeship (2) character of guilds' apprenticeship which seems to be a original type of apprenticeship in England. (3) transformation of guilds' apprenticeship (4) formation and functions of craft unions' apprenticeship after the Industrial Revolution (5) comparison between guilds' apprenticeship and craft unions' apprenticeship. And later we point out that the craft unions' apprenticeship held the pattern of training of skilled labourers and with it had a powerful effect on the industrial relation in the mid 19 th. century England. Lastly we suggest some working hypotheses for further studies. (1) There may be some relation between the function of the craft unions' apprenticeship and the formation of a view concerning technical education and school which has been peculiar to English educational thought; that is "Trade does not be taught at school but only at workshop." (2) It would have a great influence on the attitude of English trade unionists to technical education that trade unions, neither the company nor State, had an autonomy in training of skilled workers, though under the limited situations. (3) "labour aristocratic character" of the craft unionists who supported apprenticeship seems to mark not only the attitude of the working class to technical education, but also educational behaviours at large of the working class in the period of industrial capitalism.