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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
Contributor:
Steinkeller, Piotr, editor.
Hudson, Michael, 1939- editor.
Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
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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