1.
Lambrecht, Thjis; Whittle, Jane (Ed.)
Labour Laws in Preindustrial Europe: The Coercion and Regulation of Wage Labour, c.1350-1850 Collection
2023.
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Elements of labour legislation appeared before the Black Death, but were strengthened afterwards particularly in places and periods where labour became scarce. The collection focuses on the rural economy in the late medieval and early modern period. It provides a series of studies which introduce a range of approaches to labour regulation and the very idea of labour across Europe. Uniquely, the collection offers observations on the impact of labour laws on everyday social relations. Attempts to regulate work and labour varied widely: in places they amounted to wishful thinking on the part of the regional authorities, whereas elsewhere they could impose severe limitations on individual freedoms.
2.
Bänziger, Peter-Paul
The Co-Production of Labor Markets and Nation States, c. 1850-2000 Book Chapter
In: Mense, Ursula; Welskopp, Thomas; Zaharieva, Anna (Ed.): In Search of the Global Labor Market, 2022.
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3.
Schiel, Juliane
The Ragusan “Maids-of-all-Work”. Shifting Labor Relations in the Late Medieval Adriatic Sea Region Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 5, iss. 2, 2020.
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4.
Fudge, Judy
(Re)Conceptualizing Unfree Labour: Local Labour Control Regimes and Constraints on Workers‘ Freedoms‘ Journal Article
In: Global Labour Journal , vol. 10, iss. 2, pp. 108-122, 2019.
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5.
Fudge, Judy
Modern Slavery, Unfree Labour and the Labour Market: The Social Dynamics of Legal Characterization Journal Article
In: Social and Legal Studies, vol. 27, iss. 4, pp. 413-434, 2018.
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6.
Lambrecht, Thijs
Harvest Work and Labor Market Regulation in Old Regime Northern France Journal Article
In: pp. 113-131, 2018.
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7.
Uppenberg, Carolina
I husbondens bröd och arbete. Kön, makt och kontrakt i det svenska tjänstefolkssystemet 1730–1860 [Servants and masters. Gender, contract, and power relations in the servant institution in Sweden, 1730-1860] PhD Thesis
2018.
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8.
Škobla, Daniel; Filčák, Richard
Infrastructure in Marginalised Roma Settlements: Towards a Typology of Unequal Outcomes of EU Funded Projects Journal Article
In: Sociológia, vol. 48, no. 6, pp. 620-640, 2016.
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9.
Hackett, Sarah
From rags to restaurants: self-determination, entrepreneurship and integration amongst Muslim immigrants in Newcastle upon Tyne in comparative perspective, 1960s-1990s Journal Article
In: Twentieth Century British History, vol. 25, iss. 1, pp. 132-154, 2014.
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10.
Mironov, Alexandru-Murad
Grigore Trancu-Iaşi şi “protecţia muncii naţionale”: Politica socială interbelică între naţionalism şi combaterea şomajului [Grigore Trancu-Iaşi and the “protection of national labor”: Interwar social policy between nationalism and the fight against unemployment] Journal Article
In: Transilvania , vol. 10-11, pp. 64-72, 2014.
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2023
Lambrecht, Thjis; Whittle, Jane (Ed.)
Labour Laws in Preindustrial Europe: The Coercion and Regulation of Wage Labour, c.1350-1850 Collection
2023.
Abstract | Tags: agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, labour markets, longue duree, medieval history, service, wage labour, western europe, work contracts, working conditions, working time
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2022
Bänziger, Peter-Paul
The Co-Production of Labor Markets and Nation States, c. 1850-2000 Book Chapter
In: Mense, Ursula; Welskopp, Thomas; Zaharieva, Anna (Ed.): In Search of the Global Labor Market, 2022.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, economic development, globalisation, labour markets, nation state
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2020
Schiel, Juliane
The Ragusan “Maids-of-all-Work”. Shifting Labor Relations in the Late Medieval Adriatic Sea Region Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 5, iss. 2, 2020.
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2019
Fudge, Judy
(Re)Conceptualizing Unfree Labour: Local Labour Control Regimes and Constraints on Workers‘ Freedoms‘ Journal Article
In: Global Labour Journal , vol. 10, iss. 2, pp. 108-122, 2019.
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2018
Fudge, Judy
Modern Slavery, Unfree Labour and the Labour Market: The Social Dynamics of Legal Characterization Journal Article
In: Social and Legal Studies, vol. 27, iss. 4, pp. 413-434, 2018.
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Lambrecht, Thijs
Harvest Work and Labor Market Regulation in Old Regime Northern France Journal Article
In: pp. 113-131, 2018.
Tags: agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, france, labour markets
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title = {Harvest Work and Labor Market Regulation in Old Regime Northern France},
author = {Thijs Lambrecht},
editor = {Thomas Max Safley },
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
urldate = {2018-01-01},
booktitle = {Labor Before the Industrial Revolution: Work, Technology and Their Ecologies in an Age of Early Capitalism},
pages = {113-131},
keywords = {agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, france, labour markets},
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Uppenberg, Carolina
I husbondens bröd och arbete. Kön, makt och kontrakt i det svenska tjänstefolkssystemet 1730–1860 [Servants and masters. Gender, contract, and power relations in the servant institution in Sweden, 1730-1860] PhD Thesis
2018.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, domestic service, early modern history, gender, labour markets, service, sweden
@phdthesis{nokey,
title = {I husbondens bröd och arbete. Kön, makt och kontrakt i det svenska tjänstefolkssystemet 1730–1860 [Servants and masters. Gender, contract, and power relations in the servant institution in Sweden, 1730-1860]},
author = {Carolina Uppenberg},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
institution = {University of Gothenburg},
abstract = {In my doctoral thesis I studied the institution of rural servants from a labour market and a gender perspective. Pre-industrial servants were subject to compulsory service, but at the same time part of a labour market where they could choose their employer freely. I the thesis I examined the laws shaping the institution, the handling of the laws in court, and the discourse of free and unfree labour relations surrounding servants and masters.},
keywords = {19th century, domestic service, early modern history, gender, labour markets, service, sweden},
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In my doctoral thesis I studied the institution of rural servants from a labour market and a gender perspective. Pre-industrial servants were subject to compulsory service, but at the same time part of a labour market where they could choose their employer freely. I the thesis I examined the laws shaping the institution, the handling of the laws in court, and the discourse of free and unfree labour relations surrounding servants and masters.
2016
Škobla, Daniel; Filčák, Richard
Infrastructure in Marginalised Roma Settlements: Towards a Typology of Unequal Outcomes of EU Funded Projects Journal Article
In: Sociológia, vol. 48, no. 6, pp. 620-640, 2016.
Abstract | Tags: central and eastern europe, contemporary, labour markets, roma, slovakia, sociology
@article{nokey,
title = { Infrastructure in Marginalised Roma Settlements: Towards a Typology of Unequal Outcomes of EU Funded Projects},
author = {Daniel Škobla and Richard Filčák},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
journal = {Sociológia},
volume = {48},
number = {6},
pages = {620-640},
abstract = {Although a substantial number of infrastructure projects funded from EU funds were implemented to address labour market participation and living conditions of Roma/Gypsy, the outcomes had been inconclusive. In this paper the authors suggest that significant factors affecting the outcomes of EU projects aimed at Roma/Gypsy are structural conditions, power asymmetries, and rooted social practices at the local level. Employing P. Bourdieu’s conceptual framework and building on extensive fieldwork in municipalities of eastern and southern Slovakia, the authors identify three types of project outcomes.
},
keywords = {central and eastern europe, contemporary, labour markets, roma, slovakia, sociology},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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Although a substantial number of infrastructure projects funded from EU funds were implemented to address labour market participation and living conditions of Roma/Gypsy, the outcomes had been inconclusive. In this paper the authors suggest that significant factors affecting the outcomes of EU projects aimed at Roma/Gypsy are structural conditions, power asymmetries, and rooted social practices at the local level. Employing P. Bourdieu’s conceptual framework and building on extensive fieldwork in municipalities of eastern and southern Slovakia, the authors identify three types of project outcomes.
2014
Hackett, Sarah
From rags to restaurants: self-determination, entrepreneurship and integration amongst Muslim immigrants in Newcastle upon Tyne in comparative perspective, 1960s-1990s Journal Article
In: Twentieth Century British History, vol. 25, iss. 1, pp. 132-154, 2014.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, ethnic and religious minorities, germany, labour markets, migration and mobility, united kingdom
@article{nokey,
title = {From rags to restaurants: self-determination, entrepreneurship and integration amongst Muslim immigrants in Newcastle upon Tyne in comparative perspective, 1960s-1990s},
author = {Sarah Hackett},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
urldate = {2014-01-01},
journal = {Twentieth Century British History},
volume = {25},
issue = {1},
pages = {132-154},
abstract = {This article traces the development of entrepreneurship amongst Newcastle’s post-war Muslim immigrant community. A comparison with the German city of Bremen helps expose the long-term legacies of immigration histories and policies, and the role that Islam plays in determining levels of ethnic entrepreneurship. By drawing upon government documents and correspondence, Census material and a range of secondary literature, this article asserts that the scholarship on immigrant aspirations and self-determination in the British labour market during the post-Second World War period needs revising.
},
keywords = {20th century, ethnic and religious minorities, germany, labour markets, migration and mobility, united kingdom},
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This article traces the development of entrepreneurship amongst Newcastle’s post-war Muslim immigrant community. A comparison with the German city of Bremen helps expose the long-term legacies of immigration histories and policies, and the role that Islam plays in determining levels of ethnic entrepreneurship. By drawing upon government documents and correspondence, Census material and a range of secondary literature, this article asserts that the scholarship on immigrant aspirations and self-determination in the British labour market during the post-Second World War period needs revising.
Mironov, Alexandru-Murad
Grigore Trancu-Iaşi şi “protecţia muncii naţionale”: Politica socială interbelică între naţionalism şi combaterea şomajului [Grigore Trancu-Iaşi and the “protection of national labor”: Interwar social policy between nationalism and the fight against unemployment] Journal Article
In: Transilvania , vol. 10-11, pp. 64-72, 2014.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, central and eastern europe, economic and social policy, labour markets, romania
@article{nokey,
title = {Grigore Trancu-Iaşi şi “protecţia muncii naţionale”: Politica socială interbelică între naţionalism şi combaterea şomajului [Grigore Trancu-Iaşi and the “protection of national labor”: Interwar social policy between nationalism and the fight against unemployment]},
author = {Alexandru-Murad Mironov },
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
urldate = {2014-01-01},
journal = {Transilvania },
volume = {10-11},
pages = {64-72},
abstract = {This paper analyzes the historical grounds of a national policy to regulate labour in interwar Romania. The labour regime in that period was not even once modified by social pressure. Official interest varied according to economic conditions, government ideology and the personality of the holder of the office. The founder was Grigore Trancu-Iaşi, a radical statesman. Of humble extraction, he imagined himself as a sort of protector of Romanian workers. His vision was “national”: employers and employees were in the service of the motherland. The end of the democratical regime in 1938 came with a different political approach toward the working class. The political elite, democratically elected or directly appointed by the King, employed philanthropy or offered incentives. However, solidarity never became a reality.
},
keywords = {20th century, central and eastern europe, economic and social policy, labour markets, romania},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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This paper analyzes the historical grounds of a national policy to regulate labour in interwar Romania. The labour regime in that period was not even once modified by social pressure. Official interest varied according to economic conditions, government ideology and the personality of the holder of the office. The founder was Grigore Trancu-Iaşi, a radical statesman. Of humble extraction, he imagined himself as a sort of protector of Romanian workers. His vision was “national”: employers and employees were in the service of the motherland. The end of the democratical regime in 1938 came with a different political approach toward the working class. The political elite, democratically elected or directly appointed by the King, employed philanthropy or offered incentives. However, solidarity never became a reality.