Worthy effforts [electronic resource] : attitudes to work and workers in pre-industrial Europe / by Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lis, Catharina.

Contributor:

Soly, Hugo.

Series:

Studies in Global Social History 10.

Studies in global social history, 1874-6705 ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Work--Europe--History.

Work.

Employees--Europe--History.

Employees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (678 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Worthy Efforts Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly offer an innovative approach to the history of perceptions and representations of work in Europe throughout Classical Antiquity and the medieval and early modern periods. Covering the broadest possible range of historical writings to elucidate the subject, and using visual representations as sources of information as well, they address the significance of work for different groups and its impact on their sense of self-esteem and their social identity. The authors reject the standard historical account of perceptions of work. They question the clear distinction generally drawn between Classical Antiquity and subsequent periods, the revolutionary role attributed to Christianity, and the part played by monasticism, Humanism, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

1. Attitudes to Work and Workers in Ancient Greece

2. The Roman Empire: Continuity and Change

3. Christian Ideologies of Work

4. Imagined Peasantries

5. Commerce: Useful and Honourable Work

6. Artisans: Practice and Theory

7. The Many Faces of Wage-Labour

Concluding Reflections

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-55130-6

9786613863751

90-04-23277-X

OCLC:

809775310

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004232778 DOI