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Record Nr.

UNINA9910494602403321

Titolo

Experiencing wages : social and cultural aspects of wage forms in Europe since 1500 / / edited by Peter Scholliers and Leonard Schwarz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2003

ISBN

1-57181-546-5

1-57181-547-3

0-85745-684-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

International studies in social history ; ; volume 4

Disciplina

331.2/94

Soggetti

Wage payment systems - Europe - History

Wages - Europe - History

Compensation management - Europe - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

EXPERIENCING WAGES; CONTENTS; CHAPTER 1. THE WAGE IN EUROPE SINCE THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY; CHAPTER 2. INSTITUTIONAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN WAGE FORMATION: PORT LABOUR IN ANTWERP (SIXTEENTH-EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES); CHAPTER 3. WHEN LABOUR HIRES CAPITAL: EVIDENCE FROM LANCASHIRE, 1870-1914; CHAPTER 4. GIVING NOTICE: THE LEGITIMATE WAY OF QUITTING AND FIRING; CHAPTER 5. WAGE FORMS, WAGE SYSTEMS AND WAGE CONFLICTS IN GERMAN CRAFTS DURING THE EIGHTEENTH AND EARLIER NINETEENTH CENTURIES; CHAPTER 6. WAGE FORMS, PAY SYSTEMS AND LABOUR CONTROL IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AGRICULTURE

CHAPTER 7. CASH, WAGES AND THE ECONOMY OF MAKESHIFTS IN ENGLANDCHAPTER 8. GENDERED WAGE SYSTEMS AND INDUSTRIALISATION IN FINLAND IN THE LATE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES; CHAPTER 9. ENGENDERING THE EXPERIENCE OF WAGES; CHAPTER 10. AGE, GENDER AND THE WAGE IN BRITAIN; CHAPTER 11. AT WHAT COST WAS PRE-EMINENCE PURCHASED?; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX