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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Sarti, Raffaella
From Slaves and Servants to Citizens? Regulating Dependency, Race, and Gender in Revolutionary France and the French West Indies Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History , vol. 67, iss. 1, pp. 65-95, 2021.
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Ågren, Maria
Service, help and delegation: What vaguely described work can tell us about labour relations in the past Book Chapter
In: Bischoff, Jeannine (Ed.): Beyond Slavery and Freedom: Bonn Centre for Slavery and Dependence Studies Publications, 2020.
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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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Sarti, Raffaella
Le “nom de domestique” est un “mot vague”. Débats parlementaires sur la domesticité pendant la Révolution française Journal Article
In: Mélanges de l’École française de Rome. Italie et Méditerranée modernes et contemporaines, vol. 131, iss. 1, pp. 39-52, 2019.
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Østhus, Hanne
Slaver og ikke-europeiske tjenestefolk i Danmark og Norge på 1700- og begynnelsen av 1800-tallet Journal Article
In: Arbeiderhistorie, vol. 22, pp. 33-47, 2018.
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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.
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Lambrecht, Thijs
The Institution of Service in Rural Flanders in the Sixteenth Century: A Regional Perspective Book Chapter
In: Whittle, Jane (Ed.): Servants in Rural Europe: 1400-1900, pp. 37-55, 2017.
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Østhus, Hanne
Servants in Rural Norway, ca. 1650-1800 Book Chapter
In: Whittle, Jane (Ed.): Servants in Rural Europe, ca. 1400-1900, pp. 113-130, 2017.
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Østhus, Hanne
Tvunget til tjeneste? Tjenesteplikten i Danmark-Norge på 1700-tallet og begynnelsen av 1800-tallet Journal Article
In: Arbetarhistoria, iss. 3-4, pp. 26-31, 2017.
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Uppenberg, Carolina
The servant institution during the Swedish agrarian revolution: the political economy of subservience Book Chapter
In: Whittle, Jane (Ed.): Servants in rural Europe 1400–1900, pp. 167–182, 2017.
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Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm
Sjálfstætt fólk: Vistarband og íslenskt samfélag á 19. öld Book
2017.
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Lindberg, Erik; Jacobsson, Benny; Ling, Sofia
The “Dark Side” of the Ubiquity of Work: Vulnerability and Destitution among the Elderly Book Chapter
In: Maria Ågren, (Ed.): Making a Living, Making a Difference. Gender and Work in Early Modern European Society,, pp. 159-176, 2016.
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Wunsch, Cornelia; Rachel, Magdalene F.
Freedom and Dependency: Neo-Babylonian Manumission Documents with Oblation and Service Obligation Book Chapter
In: Kozuh, Michael; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Jones, Charles E.; Woods, Christopher (Ed.): Extraction and Control: Studies in Honor of Matthew W. Stolper, pp. 337-346, 2014.
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Chevaleyre, Claude
Acting As Master and Bondservant: Considerations on Status, Identities and the Nature of “Bond-Servitude” in Late Ming China Book Chapter
In: Stanziani, Alessandro (Ed.): 2013.
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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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2021
Sarti, Raffaella
From Slaves and Servants to Citizens? Regulating Dependency, Race, and Gender in Revolutionary France and the French West Indies Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History , vol. 67, iss. 1, pp. 65-95, 2021.
Abstract | Tags: abolition, colonialism, dependency, france, gender, race, revolt and revolution, service, slavery
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2020
Ågren, Maria
Service, help and delegation: What vaguely described work can tell us about labour relations in the past Book Chapter
In: Bischoff, Jeannine (Ed.): Beyond Slavery and Freedom: Bonn Centre for Slavery and Dependence Studies Publications, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: dependency, early modern history, historical semantics, new history of work, service, sweden
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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.
Abstract | Tags: bonded labour, labour markets, medieval history, mediterranean, service, sla
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2019
Sarti, Raffaella
Le “nom de domestique” est un “mot vague”. Débats parlementaires sur la domesticité pendant la Révolution française Journal Article
In: Mélanges de l’École française de Rome. Italie et Méditerranée modernes et contemporaines, vol. 131, iss. 1, pp. 39-52, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: domestic service, france, gender, historical semantics, service
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2018
Østhus, Hanne
Slaver og ikke-europeiske tjenestefolk i Danmark og Norge på 1700- og begynnelsen av 1800-tallet Journal Article
In: Arbeiderhistorie, vol. 22, pp. 33-47, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, denmark, domestic service, early modern history, norway, service, slavery
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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
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2017
Lambrecht, Thijs
The Institution of Service in Rural Flanders in the Sixteenth Century: A Regional Perspective Book Chapter
In: Whittle, Jane (Ed.): Servants in Rural Europe: 1400-1900, pp. 37-55, 2017.
Tags: agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, flanders, service
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Østhus, Hanne
Servants in Rural Norway, ca. 1650-1800 Book Chapter
In: Whittle, Jane (Ed.): Servants in Rural Europe, ca. 1400-1900, pp. 113-130, 2017.
Abstract | Tags: agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, norway, service
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title = {Servants in Rural Norway, ca. 1650-1800},
author = {Hanne Østhus },
editor = {Jane Whittle},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
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booktitle = {Servants in Rural Europe, ca. 1400-1900},
pages = {113-130},
abstract = {The chapter investigates the servant institution in pre-industrial rural Norway, particularly underscoring the many local and regional differences, also when it comes to the number of male or female servants. These differences, it is argued, demonstrate the flexibility of the servant institution, which adapted to a range of farm sizes, economic differences, and changing times.
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Østhus, Hanne
Tvunget til tjeneste? Tjenesteplikten i Danmark-Norge på 1700-tallet og begynnelsen av 1800-tallet Journal Article
In: Arbetarhistoria, iss. 3-4, pp. 26-31, 2017.
Abstract | Tags: denmark, early modern history, household, norway, service
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year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
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issue = {3-4},
pages = {26-31},
abstract = {In the article, I look at the legal obligation to work as household servants in Denmark-Norway during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Large parts of the population were subject to this legislation, but the enforcement of the law varied considerably.
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Uppenberg, Carolina
The servant institution during the Swedish agrarian revolution: the political economy of subservience Book Chapter
In: Whittle, Jane (Ed.): Servants in rural Europe 1400–1900, pp. 167–182, 2017.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, domestic service, early modern history, gender, service, sweden, work contracts
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title = {The servant institution during the Swedish agrarian revolution: the political economy of subservience},
author = {Carolina Uppenberg},
editor = {Jane Whittle},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
booktitle = {Servants in rural Europe 1400–1900},
pages = {167–182},
abstract = {This article develops the gendered aspects of the various dimensions of the servant institution. It is shown that male and female servants had different levels of freedom in their labour contracts, and this is related to the later development of a feminized servant position.
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keywords = {19th century, domestic service, early modern history, gender, service, sweden, work contracts},
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Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm
Sjálfstætt fólk: Vistarband og íslenskt samfélag á 19. öld Book
2017.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, iceland, scand, service, wage labour
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title = {Sjálfstætt fólk: Vistarband og íslenskt samfélag á 19. öld},
author = {Vilhelm Vilhelmsson},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
abstract = {This book is a revised version of my doctoral thesis. It is a study of the dominant labour regime of compulsory service in nineteenth century Iceland, focusing particularly on non-compliance with coercive labour legislation and acts of everyday resistance by servants and illegal day labourers, using regional court archives and arbitration court proceedings to analyse everyday practices. It also discusses in detail the cultural role of life-cycle service and the master-servant relationship as well as dominant ideas of household discipline and social order in early modern Iceland.
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2016
Lindberg, Erik; Jacobsson, Benny; Ling, Sofia
The “Dark Side” of the Ubiquity of Work: Vulnerability and Destitution among the Elderly Book Chapter
In: Maria Ågren, (Ed.): Making a Living, Making a Difference. Gender and Work in Early Modern European Society,, pp. 159-176, 2016.
Abstract | Tags: care, early modern history, gender, service, sweden
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title = {The “Dark Side” of the Ubiquity of Work: Vulnerability and Destitution among the Elderly},
author = {Erik Lindberg and Benny Jacobsson and Sofia Ling },
editor = {Maria Ågren,},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
booktitle = {Making a Living, Making a Difference. Gender and Work in Early Modern European Society,},
pages = {159-176},
abstract = {This article explores the possibilities for old people to contract for care. The findings in the article suggest that family and wider kin could offer a safety net, but only when there was something to share. It further suggests that people were only obliged to take care of their close relatives when there was a written contract specifying who was to provide care and on what terms. Poverty, ability to work, and age constrained the options for groups vulnerable to economic stress. Those with property or movables were in a much better bargaining position than those without, but even the smallest amount of wealth was used to contract for care. The situation for the landless poor, whether old or young, was difficult. The compulsory service statutes restricted their time-use and forced them to work under one-year contracts, with a ceiling on their wages. Although the implementation of these statutes probably varied between regions and from one period to another, they reduced the agency of the poor and their ability to manage their resources according to their own preferences.
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keywords = {care, early modern history, gender, service, sweden},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
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2014
Wunsch, Cornelia; Rachel, Magdalene F.
Freedom and Dependency: Neo-Babylonian Manumission Documents with Oblation and Service Obligation Book Chapter
In: Kozuh, Michael; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Jones, Charles E.; Woods, Christopher (Ed.): Extraction and Control: Studies in Honor of Matthew W. Stolper, pp. 337-346, 2014.
Tags: ancient history, babylonia, dependency, service
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title = {Freedom and Dependency: Neo-Babylonian Manumission Documents with Oblation and Service Obligation},
author = {Cornelia Wunsch and Magdalene F. Rachel},
editor = {Michael Kozuh and Wouter F. M. Henkelman and Charles E. Jones and Christopher Woods},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
urldate = {2014-01-01},
booktitle = {Extraction and Control: Studies in Honor of Matthew W. Stolper},
pages = {337-346},
keywords = {ancient history, babylonia, dependency, service},
pubstate = {published},
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2013
Chevaleyre, Claude
Acting As Master and Bondservant: Considerations on Status, Identities and the Nature of “Bond-Servitude” in Late Ming China Book Chapter
In: Stanziani, Alessandro (Ed.): 2013.
Tags: bonded labour, china, early modern history, service
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title = {Acting As Master and Bondservant: Considerations on Status, Identities and the Nature of “Bond-Servitude” in Late Ming China},
author = {Claude Chevaleyre},
editor = {Alessandro Stanziani},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-01-01},
urldate = {2013-01-01},
series = {Studies in Global Social History},
keywords = {bonded labour, china, early modern history, service},
pubstate = {published},
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