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Work : the last 1,000 years / Andrea Komlosy ; translated by Jacob K. Watson with Loren Balhorn.
Lippincott Library HD5701.5 .K6613 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Komlosy, Andrea, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Arbeit. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Employment (Economic theory)--History.
- Employment (Economic theory).
- Labor--History.
- Labor.
- History.
- Work--History.
- Work.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 265 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2018.
- Summary:
- Presents the history of labor from the thirteenth century up to the present, discussing how the definition and economic structures surrounding work have changed over time and how unpaid and exploited work is an ignored but vital part of the modern economy. -- Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Terms and concepts
- Work discourses
- Work and language
- Categories of analysis
- Divisions of labour: the simultaneity and combination of (different) labour relations
- Historical cross-sections
- Combining labour relations in the longue durée.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-251) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781786634108
- 1786634104
- OCLC:
- 1008758906
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