1.
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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2.
Mocarelli, Luca; Ongaro, Giulio
Work in Early Modern Italy, 1500-1800 Book
2019.
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3.
Caracausi, Andrea
Woollen Manufacturing in the Early Modern Mediterranean (1550–1630): Changing Labour Relations in a Commodity Chain Book Chapter
In: Vito, Christian De; Geritsen, Anne (Ed.): Micro-Spatial Histories of Global Labour, pp. 147-169, 2018.
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4.
Mitsiou, Ekaterini; Preiser-Kapeller, Johannes
Moving Hands: Types and Scales of Labour Mobility in the Late Medieval Eastern Mediterranean (1200-1500 CE) Book Chapter
In: Gerritsen, Anne; Vito, Christian De (Ed.): Micro-Spatial Histories of Global Labour, pp. 29-67., 2017.
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5.
Schiel, Juliane; Hanß, Stefan (Ed.)
Mediterranean Slavery Revisited (500-1800). Neue Perspektiven auf mediterrane Sklaverei (500–1800) Collection
2014.
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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.
Abstract | Tags: bonded labour, labour markets, medieval history, mediterranean, service, sla
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2019
Mocarelli, Luca; Ongaro, Giulio
Work in Early Modern Italy, 1500-1800 Book
2019.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, italy, mediterranean
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2018
Caracausi, Andrea
Woollen Manufacturing in the Early Modern Mediterranean (1550–1630): Changing Labour Relations in a Commodity Chain Book Chapter
In: Vito, Christian De; Geritsen, Anne (Ed.): Micro-Spatial Histories of Global Labour, pp. 147-169, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: commodity chains, early modern history, mediterranean, micro-spatial history, textile industry
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2017
Mitsiou, Ekaterini; Preiser-Kapeller, Johannes
Moving Hands: Types and Scales of Labour Mobility in the Late Medieval Eastern Mediterranean (1200-1500 CE) Book Chapter
In: Gerritsen, Anne; Vito, Christian De (Ed.): Micro-Spatial Histories of Global Labour, pp. 29-67., 2017.
Tags: medieval history, mediterranean, migration and mobility
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2014
Schiel, Juliane; Hanß, Stefan (Ed.)
Mediterranean Slavery Revisited (500-1800). Neue Perspektiven auf mediterrane Sklaverei (500–1800) Collection
2014.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, historical semantics, medieval history, mediterranean, slavery
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