The value of work since the 18th century custom, conflict, measurement and theory / edited by Massimo Asta and Pedro Ramos Pinto.

Other author Ramos Pinto, Pedro.
Other author Asta, Massimo.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Descriptionxi, 332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Contents Conceptualizing the earnings of wool spinners in England before industrialization / Craig Muldrew -- Wage practices at a Red bread factory (Ghent, 1880-1914) / Peter Scholliers -- Papers and wages : identity documents and work in Habsburg Austria during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century / Sigrid Wadauer -- Custom, wages, and Hobsbawm's 'rules of the game' : new perspectives on eighteenth century wages / Judy Z. Stephenson -- Regulating wage, realizing rights : domestic workers in India / Samita Sen -- Enumerating fairness : wages and labour contractors in pre-1949 China / Limin Teh -- Everywhere but in the strike statistics? : wage systems and work stoppages in Sweden, 1863-1927 / Tobias Karlsson -- From poverty lines to equal pay for equal work : commensuration struggles in Apartheid South Africa / Grace Davie -- Wages measurement in the Belgian Congo and French sub-Saharan Africa from 1919 to independence : a challenge? / Béatrice Touchelay -- Down with the Caro-vita! : a social and intellectual history of the cost-of-living statistics in Italy, 1910s-1930s / Massimo Asta -- Adam Smith on wages and labour : social norm and institutions as necessary limits to competition / Antonella Stirati -- Devaluing labour and radical theories of worker discrimination in North America in the late twentieth century / Tiago Mata -- Rethinking the concept of the living wage : ontological presuppositions of emancipatory action / Zoe Adams.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 303-327) and index.
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LCCN 2023019433
ISBN9781350332072 (hardback)
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