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industrial groups were united in their determination to
enforce to the utmost the monopoly which each enjoyed
and to crush all scope for individual initiative and all
possibility of competition. Henceforth the consumer was
completely sacrificed to the producer. The great aim of
workers in export industries was to raise wages, that of
those engaged in supplying the local market to raise, or
at least to stabilize, prices. Their vision was bounded by
the town walls, and all were convinced that their
prosperity could be secured by the simple expedient of
shutting out all competition from outside. Their
particularism became more and more rabid; never has the
conception that each profession is the exclusive
possession of a privileged body been pressed to such
extremes as it was in these medieval crafts. (pp. 206­7)