{"title": "Industrial organization in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries", "covers": [6270407], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "EDMUND BURKE in a passage of famous eloquence celebrates the wonderful power of self-adaptation which has given our political system so many centuries of unbroken continuity."}, "subject_places": ["Great Britain"], "first_publish_date": "1904", "key": "/works/OL1475752W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL156392A"}}], "subject_times": ["16th century", "17th century"], "subjects": ["Guilds", "History", "Industries", "Labor and laboring classes", "Labor unions", "Working class", "Industries, great britain, history", "Working class, great britain", "Corporations", "Industrial organization", "Latin literature", "History and criticism"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "dewey_number": ["338.6/0942"], "latest_revision": 12, "revision": 12, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T21:39:01.519243"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-08-31T21:11:56.946379"}}