Joy and Pain of Work - Global Attitudes and Valuations, 1500-1650

Klappentext This volume focuses on perceptions of work and how ideas about working (and not working) evolved in the early modern period. Zusammenfassung From 1500 to 1650 many societies underwent profound social and economic changes! resulting in the transformation of human labour and ideas about work. This volume explores how ideas about working (and not working) evolved over time in the early modern period and are still resonant today. Inhaltsverzeichnis General introduction Christine Moll Murata and Karin Hofmeester; Part I. Theory: 1. Towards a global history of work ethics, 1500?50: some preliminaries Marcel van der Linden; Part II. Europe: 2. Gender norms and work roles Ariadne Schmidt; 3. Between sin and salvation, the seventeenth-century Dutch artisan Pieter Plockhoy and his ethics of work ca.1650: text by artisan on utopian community Henk Looijesteijn; 4. Work, commerce and wages: looking for labour ideologies in early modern Italy (1500?50) Luca Mocarelli; 5. The just wage in early modern Italy: a reflection on Zacchia's 'De Salario seu Operaiorum Mercede' Andrea Caracausi; 6. Religious aspects of labour ethics in medieval and early modern Russia Arkady Tarasov; Part III. Islamic World/Ottoman Empire: 7. Cairo in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Nora Lafi; 8. Jewish ethics on women's work in the late medieval Islamic world: Maimonides versus social practice Karin Hofmeester.

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• Authors: Karin Hofmeester, Karin Moll-Murata Hofmeester
• Assisted by: Karin Hofmeester (Editor), Christine Moll-Murata (Editor), Christine (Ruhr-Universitat Moll-Murata (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.01.2012
• EAN: 9781107609754
• ISBN: 978-1-107-60975-4
• No. of pages: 322
• Series: International Review of Social; International Review of Social; International Review of Social History Supplements
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries