Work in towns, 850-1850
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Work in towns, 850-1850
Leicester University Press, c1990
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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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