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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge :
Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated,
2023.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History Series
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Table of Contents:
- 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.