Work in Early Modern Italy, 1500-1800 (eBook)

Luca Mocarelli, Giulio Ongaro (Autoren)

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2019 | 1. Auflage
157 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-3-030-26546-5 (ISBN)

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Recent decades have seen many economic history books and articles published about working men and women, small and big entrepreneurs, guilds and state manufactures, farmers and journeymen, and children and citizens. Studies have been conducted both at a macro and a micro level, at a global and at a local scale and with regional and national approaches aimed at analysing cultural, social and economic phenomena associated with the world of work. Yet, there is still new ground to be covered. This book aims to fill a gap in early modern history by presenting new insights in the study of global labour history. It considers the whole Italian peninsula as one geographical unit of analysis, encompassing all of the features that characterize labour cultures during the early modern period. It details the evolution of forms of labour in both agriculture and manufacture and the role of labour as an economic, social and cultural factor in the evolution of the Italian area.

Luca Mocarelli is Professor in Economic History at the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy. He is President of the International Association for Alpine History, Vice President of the Italian Association of Urban History and a member of the management committee of the Italian Society of Historical Demography. His research focuses on labour, environmental and markets history. 

Giulio Ongaro is Researcher in Economic History at the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy. He is a member of the management committee of the European Rural History Organisation and a coordinator of research groups within the European Labour History Network and the Italian Society of Labour History. His research focuses on the Republic of Venice and the Papal States in the early modern period.

Inhalt

Foreword 6
Contents 10
List of Tables 11
Chapter 1: Work and Labour: Meanings and Concepts 13
1.1 What Is Work 14
1.2 Free and Unfree Labour 23
1.3 Domestic Labour 27
References 28
Chapter 2: Population, Urbanisation, and Working People 31
2.1 Population in Italy Between 1500 and 1800: Some General Characteristics 33
2.2 The Population in the Italian Regions 35
2.3 Cities and Countryside 41
2.4 Active and Inactive Populations 48
References 50
Chapter 3: Technology, Markets, Specialisations, and Organisation of Production 53
3.1 The Organisation of Production in the Cities 54
3.2 Connected Cities: Relationships with the Countryside 60
3.3 Outside the Cities: Agriculture and Other Sectors 62
References 71
Chapter 4: Labour Relations 78
4.1 Skilled and Unskilled Labour 80
4.2 Forms of Remuneration 86
4.3 Labour Contracts 96
4.4 Labour Conflicts 105
References 109
Chapter 5: Labour Conditions 115
5.1 Working Time 116
5.2 Places of Work 124
5.3 Work-Related Diseases 129
References 136
Chapter 6: Work and the Little Divergence 140
References 149
Index 152

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.8.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• ISBN-10: 3-030-26546-3 / 3030265463
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-26546-5 / 9783030265465