Worthy efforts : attitudes to work and workers in pre-industrial Europe

著者

• Lis, Catharina
• Soly, Hugo

書誌事項

Worthy efforts : attitudes to work and workers in pre-industrial Europe

by Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly

（Studies in global social history / series editor, Marcel van der Linden, v. 10）

Brill, 2012

注記

Bibliography: p. [575]-634

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

General Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Antiquity and Christianity: A Polyphonic Heritage 1. Attitudes to Work and Workers in Ancient Greece Productive Virtue Specialization and Politics Freedom and Independence Non-agrarian Activities: Morality and Meaning Craftsmanship and Honour Occupation and Identity Competing Discourses 2. The Roman Empire: Continuity and Change The Economy and Elite Values Freedmen: Wealth and Status Collegia: Occupation, Status, and Power Skilled Labour as the Core of Social Identity Work Ethic A Provisional Balance 3. Christian Ideologies of Work 'Great Are these Achievements, and Dinstinctively Human' 'If Anyone Will Not Work, Then Let Him Not Eat' Ora et Labora Naked to Follow the Naked Christ Slaves of Christ, the Indigent, and Sinners Workers at the Crossroads of Order and Chaos Labour in a 'Calling' Part II: Workers in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Images and Self-Images 4. Imagined Peasantries Contrasting Images The Place of the Laboratores Interdependence and Reciprocity Hierarchy and Inequality 'When Adam Delved and Eve Span' Town and Country The Patriarchical Household and Rural Work 'Improvement' Rural Idyll 5. Commerce: Useful and Honourable Work The Christian Church: Commerce as Work Honour versus Profit? Humanists and the Pursuit of Private Wealth Urban Middle Groups and Big Business Self-Images and Self-Representations Businesswomen Short-Lived Communities of Commerce The Ideal of a Commercial Society New Dissonances 6. Artisans: Practice and Theory Mechanical Arts Craft Guilds Urban Corporatism: A World of Distinctions The 'Backbone' of the Corporative World Idealized Artisans and Imagined Workshops Self-Conscious Master Artisans Masters of Design and Original Creators Theoreticians and Technicians Fecit et Invenit 'Intellectual Artists' and 'Craftsmen-Artists' Women Artists: Amateurs or Professionals? Light Bearing Versus Fruit Bearing Theory Does Not Labour The Middling Sort and the Value of Human Labour 7. The Many Faces of Wage-Labour Labour Laws 'Living at Their Own Hand' Undeserving, Masterless Men and Idle Rogues Employment and the Active Society The Labouring Poor What Freedom? Work and Happiness Autonomous, Independent, and Self-Sufficient Collective Action Concluding Reflections Bibliography Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB11534937
• ISBN:
  • 9789004231436
• 出版国コード: ne
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Leiden
• ページ数/冊数: xiv, 664 p.
• 大きさ: 25 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 331.094
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Work -- History
  • LCSH : Employees -- Europe -- History
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA87664229