Labour and Leisure in Historical Perspective, Thirteenth to Twentieth Centuries

Papers presented at Session B-3a of the Eleventh International Economic History Congress, Milan 12th-17th September

Edited by Ian Blanchard

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Extent: 198 pages

Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag

Subjects: Business & Economics

Language: English

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(January 1994)

ISBN: 9783515065955

6.69 x 9.45 inches

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Aus dem Inhalt: <br>Y. Kahk: Changing Leisure in Nordic Villages  <br> M. Bogucka: Work, Time Perception and Leisure in an Agricultural Society: The Case of Poland in the 16th and 17th Centuries <br>B. N. Mironov: Work and Rest in the Peasant Economy of European Russia in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries  <br> J. H. Munro: Urban Wage Structures in Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries <br> R. Uriarte: Agriculture and Mining in Pre-Industrial Basque Society <br>C. A. Whatley: Carnivalesque and the monarch’s birthday in Scotland, c. 1700-1860  <br>D. Brailsford: England 1775-1815: A Time for Play <br>D. A. Reid: Wedding days and the evolution of leisure time in the workshops and factories of industrial England, 1701-1961  <br> W. Boal / P. Fishback / S. Kantor: Why Did Coal Miners Work So Few Hours? <br>Y. I. Kir’ianov: Duration of the working day and rest for the workers of different religious beliefs in Russia at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries  <br>C. Eisenberg: German workers and „English sport” <br>G. D. Snooks: The Dynamic Longrun Relationship between the Market and Household Sectors: Antipodean Experience, 1788-1990 <br>Bibliography, Index

  • Edited by Ian Blanchard