, Universiteit Antwerpen - Centrum voor Stadsgeschiedenis, 2002, softcover witte kartonomslag, geillustreerde papierwikkel, 155 x 240mm., 372pp., z/w illustratie.
Liber Amicorum Alfons K.L. Thijs. Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis 87e Jaargang - 2004. Afleveringen 1-2.
, Ertsberg, 2022 Paperback, 341 pagina's, NL, 230 x 150 mm , in Nieuwstaat. ***met Opdracht en Gesigneerd door de auteur ! *** ISBN 9789464369533.
Bert De Munck (1967) is hoogleraar geschiedenis aan de Universiteit Antwerpen. Hij doet onderzoek op het kruispunt van sociale geschiedenis en geschiedenis van de kennis.
Turnhout , Brepols, 2007 Pictorial softcover, illustrated cardboard, 175 x 250mm., 305pp., b/w illustration. ISBN 9782503522708.
The importance of training and education is on the increase. While the production of 'human capital' is seen as a motor for a competitive economy, skills and expertise proof to be necessary for social mobility. Remarkably, in conceiving modern forms of 'apprenticeship', several mechanisms from the acien regime, seem to return. The difference between public and private initiative is disappearing, education and training is being confused, and in order to acquire generic skills as flexibility, communicability, self-rule, creativity and so on, youngsters have to learn -in context-. Even for maths, scholars now talk of 'situated learning'. Before the advent of a formal schooling system, training took place on the shop floor, under the roof of a master. The apprentice not only worked but also lived in his master's house and was thus trained and educated at the same time. In cities, this system was formally complemented by an official apprenticeship system, prescribing a minimum term to serve and an obligatory masterpiece for those who wanted to become masters themselves. Traditionally, historians see this as an archaic and backward way of training, yet this book's aim is to show that is was instead a very flexible and dynamic system, perfectly in tune with the demands of an early modern economy. In order to understand it fully, however, we should differentiate the informal training system organised via a 'free market' of indentures on the one hand and the institutionalised system of craft guilds on the other. In Antwerp, early modern guilds had a project of 'emancipating' their members. They didn't simply produce certain skills, but through a system of quality marks defended the honour of craftsmen. This is the difference with current practices. By representing hands-on skills as superior, guilds supplied a sort of symbolic capital for workers. New book.
BE, Meulenhoff, 2010 Gebonden, 390pp. geillustreerd. ISBN 9789085421290.
In Antwerpen. Biografie van een stad vertellen eenentwintig historici, van wie het merendeel verbonden aan de Universiteit Antwerpen, het fascinerende verhaal van de Antwerpse stedelijke geschiedenis. Het boek start met de ontwikkelingen en verwikkelingen van de stedelijke ruimte, waarna in zeven hoofdstukken actuele thema?s rond politieke cultuur, leefmilieu, economische functieverschuivingen, sociale verbanden en culturele diversiteit historisch worden ontrafeld. De nadruk ligt daarbij op de rol van de actoren in de stad en de positie van de stad in de bredere samenleving. Het afsluitende hoofdstuk brengt een sociologische reflectie over het evoluerende beeld van de stad (topos). Ook de manier waarop Antwerpen is verbeeld komt uitgebreid aan bod.