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Title Rethinking the work ethic in premodern Europe / Gábor Almási, Giorgio Lizzul, editors
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 336 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Rethinking Work Ethics -- Weber and the Work Ethic -- The Problem of Sources -- The Meaning of Work -- Interpreting Discourses of Work -- Religion and Work Ethics -- Ideology -- Social Legitimation and Critique -- Political Economy -- Discipline -- 2 The Work Ethic in Renaissance Florence: A Study of Its Origins -- From Ambivalence to Accommodation -- The Work Ethic in Fourteenth-Century Florence: The Silence of the Sources -- The Work Ethic of Fifteenth-Century Merchant Humanists -- Conclusions
3 Preaching About Manual/Artisanal Labour: A New Focus and Ambivalent Messages (1200-1500) -- A New Focus on Work -- A Proprium for Every Human Being -- The Redemptive Value of Work -- The Perils of Manual Labour -- An Ambivalent Message: The Role of Intention -- 4 Industry, Utility, and the Distribution of Wealth in Quattrocento Humanist Thought -- The Industrious City -- Profit and the Common Good -- Wealth and Virtue -- Matteo Palmieri and the vita civile -- Education, industria, and Virtue -- Utilità and Property -- Civil Justice and Fiscality -- Conclusion
5 Work, Morality, and Discipline in Sixteenth-Century Geneva -- Calvin and Work -- The Work of Moral Discipline -- Efforts to Reform Clothing and Appearance -- Conclusion -- 6 Critical Responses to the Humanist Work Ethic: The Image of the Pedant -- Style Over Substance: Erasmus Against Purism -- Quantity Over Quality: Montaigne Against Useless Knowledge -- Criticism from Outside: The Caricature of the Pedant -- Deflating Pretensions -- Exposing Vanity -- Conclusion -- 7 Scholars Working Themselves to Death: Casaubon and Baronio Compared -- Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614) -- Cesare Baronio (1538-1607)
Concluding Observations -- 8 Work and Idleness in Adam Contzen's Political Oeuvre -- Otium in the courtier's Mirror Daniel -- Promoting Work from the Perspective of Economic Policy in the Politica -- The Industriousness and Diligence of the Prince -- Conclusion -- 9 The Counter-Reformation Concept of Good Labour and the Inculcation of a Catholic Work Ethic -- Petrus Loycx: A Hard-Working Priest's Views on Good and Bad Work -- A Static "Sociology" of Labour -- The Jesuits: Towards a More Radical Work Ethic -- Conclusion -- 10 Labour as a Form of Charity and Almsgiving in Early Modern Poor Relief
Putting the Poor to Work: Ancient Sources and New Meanings -- "A Charitable Medicine:" Employing the Poor in Muratori's Della Carità Cristiana -- "Almost for Charity:" The Roman Ospizio Apostolico and Its Opponents -- Conclusion -- 11 Enlightened Women at Work: The Case of Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier (1770s-1790s) -- Working and Playing -- Amusing Chemistry -- A Pleasant Revolution? -- Conclusions -- 12 Labor Ipse Voluptas: Virtues of Work in Nineteenth-Century Germany -- Human Interest Stories -- Time-Honored Repertoires -- Nostalgia-Or Not? -- A Man of Genius -- A Religion of Work -- Conclusion -- Index
Summary This book is an excellent and highly welcome contribution to the history of the work ethic, as it reveals both surprising continuities and profound historical variations in the long-term assessment of work. Josef Ehmer, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Vienna, Austria These masterful essays recover a multi-faceted discourse of work in European thought cutting across genres, confessions, geo-political borders, and occupational groups. Among this volumes many points of interest, the early forms of workaholism traced here have profound contemporary relevance. Sarah Gwyneth Ross, Professor of History, Boston College, USA This book investigates how work ethics in Europe were conceptualised from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. Through analysis of a range of discourses, it focuses on the roles played by intellectuals in formulating, communicating, and contesting ideas about work and its ethical value. The book moves away from the idea of a singular Weberian work ethic as fundamental to modern notions of work and instead emphasises how different languages of work were harnessed for a variety of social, intellectual, religious, economic, political, and ideological objectives. Rather than a singular work ethic that left a decisive mark on the development of Western culture and economy, the volume stresses plurality. The essays draw on approaches from intellectual, social, and cultural history. They explore how, why, and in what contexts labour became an important and openly promoted value; who promoted or opposed hard work and for what reasons; and whether there was an early modern break with ancient and medieval discourses on work. These historicized visions of work ethics help enrich our understanding of present-day changing attitudes to work. Gbor Almsi is Senior Researcher of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo Latin Studies, Innsbruck, Austria. Giorgio Lizzul is Post-doctoral Junior Fellow at the Fondazione 1563, Turin, and Visiting Scholar at the Universit di Torino, Italy
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes blibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 07, 2023)
Subject Work ethic -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Labor -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Labor
Social conditions
Work ethic
SUBJECT Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045754
Subject Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Almási, Gábor, editor.
Lizzul, Giorgio, editor
ISBN 9783031380921
3031380924