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Experiencing wages : social and cultural aspects of wage forms in Europe since 1500 / edited by Peter Scholliers and Leonard Schwarz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mergner, Gottfried.
- Series:
- International studies in social history ; v. 4.
- International studies in social history ; volume 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wage payment systems--Europe--History.
- Wage payment systems.
- Wages--Europe--History.
- Wages.
- Compensation management--Europe--History.
- Compensation management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- When discussing wages, historians have traditionally concentrated on the level of wages, much less on how people were paid for their work. Important aspects were thus ignored such as how frequently were wages actually paid, how much of the wage was paid in non-monetary form - whether as traditional perquisites or community relief - especially when there was often insufficient coinage available to pay wages. Covering a wide geographical area, ranging from Spain to Finland, and time span, ranging from the sixteenth century to the 1930s, this volume offers fresh perspectives on key areas in social and economic history such as the relationship between customs, moral economy, wages and the market, changing pay and wage forms and the relationship between age, gender and wages.
- Contents:
- EXPERIENCING WAGES; CONTENTS; CHAPTER 1. THE WAGE IN EUROPE SINCE THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY; CHAPTER 2. INSTITUTIONAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN WAGE FORMATION: PORT LABOUR IN ANTWERP (SIXTEENTH-EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES); CHAPTER 3. WHEN LABOUR HIRES CAPITAL: EVIDENCE FROM LANCASHIRE, 1870-1914; CHAPTER 4. GIVING NOTICE: THE LEGITIMATE WAY OF QUITTING AND FIRING; CHAPTER 5. WAGE FORMS, WAGE SYSTEMS AND WAGE CONFLICTS IN GERMAN CRAFTS DURING THE EIGHTEENTH AND EARLIER NINETEENTH CENTURIES; CHAPTER 6. WAGE FORMS, PAY SYSTEMS AND LABOUR CONTROL IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AGRICULTURE
- CHAPTER 7. CASH, WAGES AND THE ECONOMY OF MAKESHIFTS IN ENGLANDCHAPTER 8. GENDERED WAGE SYSTEMS AND INDUSTRIALISATION IN FINLAND IN THE LATE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES; CHAPTER 9. ENGENDERING THE EXPERIENCE OF WAGES; CHAPTER 10. AGE, GENDER AND THE WAGE IN BRITAIN; CHAPTER 11. AT WHAT COST WAS PRE-EMINENCE PURCHASED?; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781571815460
- 1571815465
- 9781571815477
- 1571815473
- 9780857456847
- 0857456849
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