This book is an introduction to the history of work in general and of artisans in particular in Europe from 1300 to 1914. It focuses on many aspects of artisan culture, including economic and guild life, and discusses social, rebellious, ceremonial and leisure experience as well. Women, masters, journeymen, apprentices, and non-guild workers all receive substantial treatment, and the text is illuminated with fascinating illustrations.
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"provides excellent overview of the latest historiography...The range is admirable...Farr tells this story in beautifully crafted thematic chapters...Use this book. Your students will love it." Labor History Dec 2001
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This textbook is an introduction to the history of work in general and of artisans in particular in Europe from 1300 to 1914. It focuses on many aspects of artisan culture, including economic and guild life, and discusses social, rebellious, ceremonial and leisure experience as well. Women, masters, journeymen, apprentices, and non-guild workers all receive substantial treatment, and the text is illuminated with fascinating illustrations. Students of European history will find much of value in this accessible and authoritative textbook.
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"From the Middle Ages to the industrial age men (and it was exclusively educated men who wrote about this) have had an ambivalent, even sometimes paradoxical, attitude to work." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
journeymen brotherhoods, guild endogamy, craft confraternities, luxury guilds, guild governance, master guildsmen, artisan householders, corporate idiom, incorporated guilds, tramping system, journeymen hatters, early modern centuries, guild statutes, corporate regime, small commodity production, female artisans, craft economy, journeymen tailors, guild histories, guild officers, artisan culture, guild officials, journeymen associations, master shoemakers, same guild Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Michael Sonenscher, Maxine Berg, Hugo Soly, Black Death, Dover Publications, Steven Kaplan, The Book of Trades, Bibliography Entries, Geoffrey Crossick, Holy Roman, William Sewell, Gervase Rosser, Mack Walker, Renaissance Florence, University of California Press, Adam Smith, Atlantic Highlands, John Najemy, John Rule, Peter Earle, The Hatters of Eighteenth-Century France, Arlette Farge, Christopher Friedrichs, Cornell University New!
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"From the Middle Ages to the industrial age men (and it was exclusively educated men who wrote about this) have had an ambivalent, even sometimes paradoxical, attitude to work." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
journeymen brotherhoods, guild endogamy, craft confraternities, luxury guilds, guild governance, master guildsmen, artisan householders, corporate idiom, incorporated guilds, tramping system, journeymen hatters, early modern centuries, guild statutes, corporate regime, small commodity production, female artisans, craft economy, journeymen tailors, guild histories, guild officers, artisan culture, guild officials, journeymen associations, master shoemakers, same guild Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Michael Sonenscher, Maxine Berg, Hugo Soly, Black Death, Dover Publications, Steven Kaplan, The Book of Trades, Bibliography Entries, Geoffrey Crossick, Holy Roman, William Sewell, Gervase Rosser, Mack Walker, Renaissance Florence, University of California Press, Adam Smith, Atlantic Highlands, John Najemy, John Rule, Peter Earle, The Hatters of Eighteenth-Century France, Arlette Farge, Christopher Friedrichs, Cornell University New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Book of Trades by J. Amman on 7 pages
- The Book of Trades (Standebuch) by Hans Sachs on 7 pages
- The Historical Meanings of Work by Patrick Joyce in Front Matter, and page 221
- Culture and Practical Reason by Marshall Sahlins in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Tradesmen and Traders by Richard MacKenney in Front Matter, and page 166
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