Labour laws in preindustrial Europe: the coercion and regulation of wage labour, C. 1350-1850

Explores the variety of legal and regulatory regimes that existed in Western Europe to control labour and how workers experienced those controls.

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Weitere Verfasser: Whittle, Jane ca. 20./21. Jh (HerausgeberIn), Lambrecht, Thijs (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Woodbridge The Boydell Press 2023
Ausgabe:first published
Schriftenreihe:People, markets, goods$deconomies and societies in history Volume 21
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Zusammenfassung:Explores the variety of legal and regulatory regimes that existed in Western Europe to control labour and how workers experienced those controls.
Front cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1 Attitudes to Wage Labour in English Legislation, 1349-1601 -- 2 Agricultural Workers and their Contractual Terms of Employment in Marseille, 1349-1400 -- 3 Mezzadria and Labour Regulations after the Black Death in Florence and Siena -- Part II -- 4 Slaves, Servants and other Dependent People -- 5 Servant Law in Denmark-Norway, c.1600-1800 -- 6 Labour Legislation and Rural Servants in the southern Low Countries, c.1600-1800 -- 7 Dimensions of Free and Unfree Labour in the Swedish Servant Acts, 1664-1858 -- Part III -- 8 Popular Attitudes to Service as a Form of Social and Economic Control in England, 1564-1641 -- 9 Exposed Lives: Compulsory Service and 'Vagrancy' Practices in Sweden in the 1830s -- 10 Labour Regulations in Law and Practice in Nineteenth-Century Iceland -- Index -- People, Markets, Goods.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (XII, 250 Seitrn)
ISBN:9781805430070
DOI:10.1515/9781805430070