Work in Early Modern Italy, 1500-1800

• Main Authors: Mocarelli, Luca (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Ongaro, Giulio (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History,
• Subjects: Economic history.; Labor economics.; Urban economics.; Industrial organization.; Agricultural economics.; Economic History.; Labor Economics.; Urban Economics.; Industrial Organization.; Agricultural Economics.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Work and Labour: Meanings and Concepts
• 2. Population, Urbanization and Working People
• 3. Technology, Markets, Specializations and Organization of Production
• 4. Labour Relations
• 5. Labour Conditions
• 5. Work and the Little Divergence.