Servants in Rural Europe : 1400-1900 /

"This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Live-in servants were a distinctive element of early modern society. They were typically young adults aged between 16 and 24 who lived and worked in other people's hou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Economic History Society
Otros Autores: Whittle, Jane
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2017.
Colección:People, markets, goods ; v. 11.
Temas:
Household employees > Europe > Rural conditions > History.
Household employees > Europe > Rural conditions.
Employés de maison > Europe > Conditions rurales.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY > Modern > 18th Century.
Ländlicher Raum
Diener
Arbeiter
Knecht
Europe
Europa
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontcover
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Note on Terminology
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction: Servants in the Economy and Society of Rural Europe
  • 1. The Employment of Servants in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Coastal Flanders: A Case Study of Scueringhe Farm near Bruges
  • 2. The Institution of Service in Rural Flanders in the Sixteenth Century: A Regional Perspective
  • 3. A Different Pattern of Employment: Servants in Rural England c.1500-1660
  • 4. Female Service and the Village Community in South-West England 1550-1650: The Labour Laws Reconsidered
  • 5. Life-Cycle Servant and Servant for Life: Work and Prospects in Rural Sweden c.1670-1730
  • 6. Servants in Rural Norway c.1650-1800
  • 7. Rural Servants in Eighteenth-Century Münsterland, North- Western Germany: Households, Families and Servants in the Countryside
  • 8. Rural Servants in Eastern France 1700-1872: Change and Continuity Over Two Centuries
  • 9. The Servant Institution During the Swedish Agrarian Revolution: The Political Economy of Subservience
  • 10. Farm Service and Hiring Practices in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England: The Doncaster Region in the West Riding of Yorkshire
  • 11. Dutch Live-In Farm Servants in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Decline of the Life-Cycle Service System for the Rural Lower Class
  • 12. Rural Life-Cycle Service: Established Interpretations and New (Surprising) Data
  • The Italian Case in Comparative Perspective (Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries)
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index.

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