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Book SynopsisBert De Munck is Full Professor at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is the author of Technologies of Learning: Apprenticeship in Antwerp from the 15th Century to the End of the Ancien Régime (2007). He is also the co-editor, along with Steven Laurence Kaplan and Hugo Soly, of Learning on the Shop Floor: Historical Perspectives on Apprenticeship (2007) and, with Anne Winter, of Gated Communities? Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities (2012).
Thomas Max Safley is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His most recent work includes Family Firms and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe (2019), as author, and Labor Before the Industrial Revolution (2018), as editor.
Table of ContentsList of Figures General Editors’ Preface Contributor Notes Introduction –
Bert De Munck (University of Antwerp, Belgium) and Thomas Max Safley (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 1. The Economy of Work –
Thomas Max Safley (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 2. Picturing Work –
Ilja Veldman (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) 3. Work and Workplaces –
Josef Ehmer (University of Salzburg, Austria) 4. Workplace Cultures –
Anna Bellavitis (University of Rouennormandie, France) 5. Work, Skill, and Technology –
Karel Davids (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) 6. Work and Mobility –
Jason P. Coy (College of Charleston, USA) 7. Work and Society –
Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly (both Free University of Brussels, Belgium) 8. The Political Culture of Work –
Bert De Munck (University of Antwerp, Belgium) and Jan Dumolyn (Ghent University, Belgium) 9. Work and Leisure –
Alessandro Arcangeli (University of Verona, Italy) Notes Further Readings Index
