Contracts and Ways of Working in the Building Trades

Judy Stephenson

Chapter Chapter 4 in Contracts and Pay, 2020, pp 79-106 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter will discuss the evidence from building contracts and work records to show that seventeenth-century business men in construction understood the costs, incentives, and benefits of different organisational and contractual arrangements, and that they used such varying arrangements purposefully to mitigate risk.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-57508-7_4

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