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In part due to their own inability to [[control]] unruly corporate [[behavior]], the tide turned against the guilds.

In part due to their own inability to [[control]] unruly corporate [[behavior]], the tide turned against the guilds.

Because of industrialization and modernization of the [[trade]] and [[industry]], and the rise of powerful [[nation]]-states that could directly issue [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent patent] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright copyright] protections — often revealing the trade [[secrets]] — the guilds' [[power]] faded. After the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution French Revolution] they fell in most European nations through the 1800s, as the guild system was disbanded and replaced by free trade laws. By that time, many former handicraft workers had been forced to seek employment in the emerging [[manufacturing]] [[industries]], using not closely guarded [[techniques]] but [[standardized]] [[methods]] controlled by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation corporations].[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild]]

Because of industrialization and modernization of the [[trade]] and [[industry]], and the rise of powerful [[nation]]-states that could directly issue [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent patent] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright copyright] protections — often revealing the trade [[secrets]] — the guilds' [[power]] faded. After the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution French Revolution] they fell in most European nations through the 1800s, as the guild system was disbanded and replaced by free trade laws. By that time, many former handicraft workers had been forced to seek employment in the emerging [[manufacturing]] [[industries]], using not closely guarded [[techniques]] but [[standardized]] [[methods]] controlled by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation corporations].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild]

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[[Category: History]]

[[Category: Economics]]

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