Overview
- Analyses the evolution of the idea of work in the early modern period
- Shows the evolution of forms of labour in both agriculture and manufacturing
- Demonstrates the role that labour as an economic, social and cultural factor has played in the evolution of geographical areas
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)
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Recent decades have seen many economic history books and articles published about working men and women, small and big entrepreneurs, guilds and state manufactures, farmers and journeymen, and children and citizens. Studies have been conducted both at a macro and a micro level, at a global and at a local scale and with regional and national approaches aimed at analysing cultural, social and economic phenomena associated with the world of work. Yet, there is still new ground to be covered. This book aims to fill a gap in early modern history by presenting new insights in the study of global labour history. It considers the whole Italian peninsula as one geographical unit of analysis, encompassing all of the features that characterize labour cultures during the early modern period. It details the evolution of forms of labour in both agriculture and manufacture and the role of labour as an economic, social and cultural factor in the evolution of the Italian area.
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Keywords
- Early Modern Italy
- Italian labour economics
- The Little Divergence
- Wage history
- Labour history
- Technology and innovation economics
- Skilled labour
- Unskilled labour
- Italian economic history
- Renaissance Italy
- Urban working class
- Mechanical work
- Farming history
- Fishery
- Lumbering sector
- Mining sector
- Economics of urbanisation
Table of contents (6 chapters)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Luca Mocarelli is Professor in Economic History at the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy. He is President of the International Association for Alpine History, Vice President of the Italian Association of Urban History and a member of the management committee of the Italian Society of Historical Demography. His research focuses on labour, environmental and markets history.
Giulio Ongaro is Researcher in Economic History at the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy. He is a member of the management committee of the European Rural History Organisation and a coordinator of research groups within the European Labour History Network and the Italian Society of Labour History. His research focuses on the Republic of Venice and the Papal States in the early modern period.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Work in Early Modern Italy, 1500–1800
Authors: Luca Mocarelli, Giulio Ongaro
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26546-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26545-8Published: 12 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26548-9Published: 12 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26546-5Published: 31 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2662-6497
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 148
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Economic History, Labor Economics, Urban Economics, Industrial Organization, Agricultural Economics