The value of work since the 18th century : custom, conflict, measurement and theory / edited by Massimo Asta and Pedro Ramos Pinto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ramos Pinto, Pedro, editor.

Asta, Massimo, editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wages--History.

Wages.

Employees--Economic conditions.

Employees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 332 pages) : illustrations (black and white.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

Contents:

Conceptualizing the earnings of wool spinners in England before industrialization / Craig Muldrew

Wage practices at a Red bread factory (Ghent, 1880-1914) / Peter Scholliers

Papers and wages : identity documents and work in Habsburg Austria during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century / Sigrid Wadauer

Custom, wages, and Hobsbawm's 'rules of the game' : new perspectives on eighteenth century wages / Judy Z. Stephenson

Regulating wage, realizing rights : domestic workers in India / Samita Sen

Enumerating fairness : wages and labour contractors in pre-1949 China / Limin Teh

Everywhere but in the strike statistics? : wage systems and work stoppages in Sweden, 1863-1927 / Tobias Karlsson

From poverty lines to equal pay for equal work : commensuration struggles in Apartheid South Africa / Grace Davie

Wages measurement in the Belgian Congo and French sub-Saharan Africa from 1919 to independence : a challenge? / Béatrice Touchelay

Down with the Caro-vita! : a social and intellectual history of the cost-of-living statistics in Italy, 1910s-1930s / Massimo Asta

Adam Smith on wages and labour : social norm and institutions as necessary limits to competition / Antonella Stirati

Devaluing labour and radical theories of worker discrimination in North America in the late twentieth century / Tiago Mata

Rethinking the concept of the living wage : ontological presuppositions of emancipatory action / Zoe Adams.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Online version: Value of work since the 18th century

ISBN:

9781350335615 (electronic bk.)

1350335614 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

99994965421

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.