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Labor in the ancient world : a colloquium held at Hirschbach (Saxony), April 2005 / edited by Piotr Steinkeller, Michael Hudson.
Penn Museum Library HD4844 .I58 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- International Scholars Conference on Ancient Near Eastern Economies (2005 : Hirschbach, Germany)
- Series:
- International Scholars Conference on Ancient Near Eastern Economies (Series) ; v. 5.
- International Scholars Conference on Ancient Near Eastern Economies ; volume 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor--Middle East--History--To 1500--Congresses.
- Labor.
- Working class--Middle East--History--To 1500--Congresses.
- Working class.
- Economic conditions.
- History.
- Middle East--Antiquities--Congresses.
- Middle East.
- Antiquities.
- Middle East--Economic conditions--Congresses.
- Economic history.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 664 pages : black & white illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Dresden : ISLET, [2015]
- Contents:
- Introduction : labor in the early states : an early Mesopotamian perspective / Piotr Steinkeller
- Labor, social formation, and the Neolithic revolution / C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky
- Home and work in early Bronze Age Mesopotamia : "ration lists" and "private houses" at Tell Beydar/Nadaba / Walther Sallaberger and Alexander Pruß
- The employment of labor on national building projects in the Ur III period / Piotr Steinkeller
- Building Larsa : labor value, scale and scope-of-economy in Ancient Mesopotamia / Seth Richardson
- Hired labor in the Neo-Assyrian Empire / Karen Radner
- Labor in Babylonia in the first millennium BC / Michael Jursa
- Labor and the pyramids : the Heith el-Ghurab "workers town" at Giza / Mark Lehner
- Problems of authority, compulsion, and compensation in Ancient Egyptian labor practices / Ogden Goelet
- Labor and individuals in Late Bronze Age Pylos / Dimitri Nakassis
- The Mycenaean mobilization of labor in agriculture and building projects : institutions, individuals, compensation, and status in the Linear B tablets / Tom Palaima
- How the organization of labor shaped civilization's takeoff / Michael Hudson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9783981484236
- 3981484231
- OCLC:
- 910881483
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