Work in towns, 850-1850
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Work in towns, 850-1850
Leicester University Press, c1990
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Contributions from a variety of disciplines give rise to a range of novel debates concerning the nature of work, the difficulty of getting beyond occupational labels, the diversity of data used in the study of work, and the definition of the word itself.
Table of Contents
- Continuity and development in urban trades - problems of concepts and the evidence, Derek Keene
- craft and industry in Anglo-Scandinavian York, Dominic Tweddle
- artisans in the urban economy - the documentary evidence from York, Heather Swanson
- town and country in late medieval England - the hide and leather trade, Maryanne Kowaleski
- ceramic consumption and supply in early modern Amsterdam - local production and long-distance trade, Jan M.Baart
- women and work in sixteenth-century English towns, Michael Roberts
- the East London working community in the seventeenth century, Michael J.Power
- work, violence and community in early industrial Merthyr Tydfil, Chris Evans
- urbanization, social structure and population circulation in pre-industrial times - flows of people through Vadstena (Sweden) in the mid-nineteenth century, John Langton and Goran Hoppe
- the taxonomy of occupations in late eighteenth-century Westminster, Edmund M.Green
- working and moving in early nineteenth-century provincial towns, John A.Phillips
- defining urban work, Penelope J.Corfield.
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