TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lis,Catharina
AU  - Soly,Hugo
TI  - Worthy efforts: attitudes to work and workers in pre-industrial Europe 
T2  - Studies in global social history,
SN  - 9789004232778
AV  - HD8375 .L57 2012
U1  - 331.094 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Work
KW  - History
KW  - Employees
KW  - Europe
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004232778
ER  -