| Description |
v, 320 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The historical meanings of work: an introduction / Patrick Joyce -- Mythical work: workshop production and the compagnonnages of eighteenth-century France / Michael Sonenscher -- Women's work, mechanisation and the early phases of industrialisation in England / Maxine Berg -- The property of skill in the period of manufacture / John Rule -- 'L'ouvrière! Mot impie, sordide...': women workers in the discourse of French political economy, 1840-1860 / Joan W. Scott -- The languages of factory reform in Britain, c.1830-1860 / Robert Gray -- Time to work, time to live: some aspects of work and the re-formation of class in Britain, 1850-1880 / Keith McClelland -- 'A time to every purpose': an essay on time and work / Richard Whipp -- The 'work ethic' and 'leisure' activity: the hot rod in post-war America / H.F. Moorhouse |
| Analysis |
History |
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Leisure activities |
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Overseas item |
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Social change |
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Social values |
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Women |
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Work |
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Work ethic |
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Work, 1700-1986 |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p. 258-309 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 258-309 |
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Includes index |
| Subject |
Labor -- History.
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Leisure.
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Quality of work life.
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Work ethic.
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Work -- History.
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Work.
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| Author |
Joyce, Patrick.
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| LC no. |
87000788 |
| ISBN |
0521308976 |
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0521366860 |
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