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accounting of metallurgical development of various european countries is not that that exciting to read about. its not as bad a capital volume 2 but pretty sloggish

"The history of commercial and civil law in the West is in large measure the story of the progressive adaptation of the usages of an agrarian, community-centred, tradition-bound society to the requirements of an industrial, individualistic, and rational—hence mobile—capitalism."

More common were surreptitious increases in the worker’s task: he was given longer warps or less credit for waste; or procedures of measuring and weighing were altered in the employer’s favour....The resentful workers were incited thereby to embezzle the more, and frictions built into the system were correspondingly aggravated.