Worthy efforts : attitudes to work and workers in pre-industrial Europe /
Lis, Catharina.
Worthy efforts : attitudes to work and workers in pre-industrial Europe / by Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly. - 1 online resource (xiv, 664 pages) - Studies in global social history, 10 1874-6705 ; . - Studies in Global Social History 10. Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004223318. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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.
9789004232778
10.1163/9789004232778 DOI
2012020410
Work--History.
Employees--History.--Europe
HD8375 / .L57 2012
331.094
Worthy efforts : attitudes to work and workers in pre-industrial Europe / by Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly. - 1 online resource (xiv, 664 pages) - Studies in global social history, 10 1874-6705 ; . - Studies in Global Social History 10. Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004223318. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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.
9789004232778
10.1163/9789004232778 DOI
2012020410
Work--History.
Employees--History.--Europe
HD8375 / .L57 2012
331.094