Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

ARTEL (Russ. for " gang ")

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 663 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

See also:

ARTEL (Russ. for " gang ")  , the name for the co-operative associations in See also:Russia . Originally, the artels were true examples See also:ARTEMIS 663 of productive co-operation, bodies of working-men associating together for the purpose of jointly undertaking some piece of See also:work, and dividing the profits . This See also:original See also:form of See also:artel still survives among the fishermen of See also:Archangel . Artels have come, however, to be little more than See also:trade See also:gilds, with mutual responsibility .

End of Article: ARTEL (Russ. for " gang ")
[back]
ARTEGA
[next]
ARTEMIDORUS

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click and select "copy." Paste it into a website, email, or other HTML document.