The Idea of Work in Europe from Antiquity to Modern TimesJosef Ehmer, Catharina Lis This volume takes a fresh and innovative approach to labour history, concerning perceptions and attitudes to work, the culture of work, and representations of work throughout the medieval and early modern period. |
Contents
A Polyphonic Heritage | 33 |
Confronting | 71 |
Or Why Early Modern Worker Autobiographers | 91 |
Patterns | 125 |
Representations of Labour in Late SixteenthCentury Netherlandish | 149 |
Representing Womens Work in Early Modern Italy | 177 |
Dutch | 191 |
The Perception and Description of Work | 215 |
The Abbé Pluches Spectacle de la nature | 245 |
The Making of Wages and Attitudes towards Labour in the Crafts | 277 |
Perceptions of Mobile Labour and Migratory Practices in Early | 307 |
Representations of Labour in Visual Images and Literary | 331 |
Relations | 339 |
Comment | 349 |
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