Labor Before the Industrial Revolution: Work, Technology and their Ecologies in an Age of Early Capitalism

Author:   Thomas Max Safley
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367664848


Pages:   262
Publication Date:   30 September 2020
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Thomas Max Safley
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9780367664848


ISBN 10:   0367664844
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   30 September 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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1. Introduction by Thomas Max Safley & Leonard N. Rosenband 2. Practice and Vision: The Depiction of Paper-making in 18th-Century Encyclopedias by Leonard N. Rosenband 3. Fashion, Capitalism and Ribbon-Making in Early Modern Europe by Andrea Caracausi 4. The Commodity Form ofl Labor: Discursive and Cultural Transitions to Capitalism(s) and Labor in the Low Countries’ Ceramic Industries (1500-1900) by Jelle Versieren & Bert de Munck 5. Quality Disputes among the London Leather Trades in the 18th Century by Philippe Minard 6. Harvest Work and Labor Market Regulation in Old Regime Northern France by Thijs Lambrecht 7. “Quand le bâtiment va, tout va.” The Building Trade in the Latine West in the Middle Ages by Sandrine Victor 8. On Land and at Sea: Maritime Work and Maritime Workers in Medieval Catalonia by Roser Salicrú i Lluch 9. Glass-making and Glass-makers from the 16th to the 18th Century by Corine Maitte 10. Mercury Mining and Miners: The Transition from Boutique Metal to Strategic Commodity in the 16th Century by Thomas Max Safley 11. Labour and the Alternative Economy in Britain, 1660 to 1842 by William J. Ashworth

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Thomas Max Safley is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

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