ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with an overview of Eleonora Canepari and Italian cities in the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries, where a combination of ordinances, proclamations and guild regulations worked to create a specific labour force in such towns as Milan, Siena, Florence and Pisa. Ulrich Niggemann moves to a longer view of guilds and newcomers by comparing several German cities with London, primarily as Huguenot artisans entered in the last half of the seventeenth century, when they were persecuted in seventeenth-century France. The chapter presents design for merchant capitalism, the port developed inclusive measures that positively welcomed those who could develop commerce while attempting to keep out those who would be a drag on the economy, but welcomed a diversity of confessions and nationalities. The chapter presents Lutheran model for good behaviour written into in the Migrant's Ordinance was a demanding one, with carefully delineated rules for seeking work and taking a drink.
