Author: Joyce, Patrick
Title: The Historical Meanings of Work
Description: Cambridge/ New York, Cambridge University Press, 1987. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; black dj with red lettering, bw illustration, mylar cover; v, 320 pp, bw map. "There is by now a considerable academic literature concerned with matters such as the development of the labour process, labour history, and the sociology of work."- dj. 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. VG-/VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Age toning to pages. Text is otherwise clear.) .

Keywords: Misc ; Work Ethics ; ;