Complexity of the Putting-Out-System in Toledo and its Jurisdiction (XVII-XVIII Centuries)

Abstract

Certain differences between the historians exist on if the system of Putting-Out-System or Verlagssystem had major or minor incident in the labor -commercial relations of the industry of the Former Regime in Spain. A few authors have exposed that rarely was giving himself the system englishman of a capitalist merchant who was advancing the raw material to the workers later to gather the finished product and to commercialize it. Others incline to that his incident had a major weight in the industrial castilian development. We, with this article we want to expose the complexity that is given in the relations of the world of the textile industry in Toledo according to the existing writings of obligation in the notarial protocols in the Historical Provincial File of Toledo. We affirm that this system was very usual in the silk and wool industry of Toledo, with the exception of which regarding the silk industry, almost production did not exist in the rural area, but it was concentrating practically in the own city, while the wool one had major incident in the nearby peoples.