Experiencing wages : social and cultural aspects of wage forms in Europe since 1500 / edited by Peter Scholliers and Leonard Schwarz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scholliers, Peter

Schwarz, L. D.

Series:

International studies in social history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wage payment systems--Europe--History.

Wage payment systems.

Wages--Europe--History.

Wages.

Compensation management--Europe--History.

Compensation management.

History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

viii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2003.

Contents:

The wage in Europe since the sixteenth century / Peter Scholliers and Leonard Schwarz

Institutional and cultural change in wage formation: port labour in Antwerp (sixteenth - eighteenth centuries) / Harald Deceulaer

When labour hires capital: evidence from Lancashire, 1870-1914 / Michael Huberman

Giving notice: the legitimate way of quitting and firing (Ghent, 1877-1896) / Patricia Van den Eeckhout

Wage forms, wage systems and wage conflicts in German crafts during the eighteenth and earlier nineteenth centuries / Reinhold Reith

Wage forms, pay systems and labour control in nineteenth-century agriculture. Evidence from the Dutch province of Groningen / Henny Gooren and Hans Heger

Cash, wages and the economy of makeshifts in England, 1650-1800 / Craig Muldrew and Stephen King

Gendered wage systems and industrialisation in Finland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Sakari Heikkinen

Engendering the experience of wages: the evolution of the piecework system at the Spanish Tobacco Monopoly, 1800-1930s / Lina Gálvez-Muñoz

Age, gender and the wage in Britain, 1830-1930 / Paul Johnson

At what cost was pre-eminence purchased? child labour and the first industrial revolution / Jane Humphries.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1571815465

OCLC:

52386364