books.google.com - The master ship builders of seventeenth-century Venice formed part of what was arguably the greatest manufacturing complex in early modern Europe. As many as three thousand masters, apprentices, and laborers regularly worked in the city's enormous shipyards. This is the social history of the men and...http://books.google.com/books/about/Shipbuilders_of_the_Venetian_Arsenal.html?id=qRKfhXMMms8C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareShipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal