The latest issue of Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis (TSEG 2014, jrg 11 no 1) is largely devoted to "Worthy Efforts: Attitudes to Work and Workers in Pre-Industrial Europe" (Leiden 2012) by Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly, an influential and highly appreciated book on the valuation of work (praying, trade, agriculture et cetera) and workers in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. According to one of the review essays ( by Jan Lucassen), two categories of workers are relatively absent: slaves and soldiers.
The debate on Worthy Efforts in TSEG 2014 no 1:
- Editorial introduction
- Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly, Summary of the main arguments developed in Worthy Effforts
- Koenraad Verboven, Attitudes to work and workers in classical Greece and Greece and Rome
- Jeroen Deploige, By the labour of whose hands? Two reflections on the appreciation of work in medieval Christianity
- Jessica Dijkman, Worthy Effforts and the medieval economy
- Jan Lucassen, Worthy and unworthy effforts: Europe as a comparative unit
- Peer Vries, Bringing labour back in: Reflections on Worthy Effforts on the origins of modern economic growth
- Christine Moll-Murata, Non-Western Perspectives: The Chinese Dimension
- Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly, Exploring ideas about work and workers in pre-industrial Europe and other parts of the world.
- A reply from the authors of Worthy Efforts
TSEG is a quarterly magazine published on behalf of IISH and NEHA by Amsterdam University Press. The website is hosted by IISH.
Posted:
2 May 2014