Experiencing Wages : : Social and Cultural Aspects of Wage Forms in Europe since 1500 / / ed. by Peter Scholliers, Leonard Schwarz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Deceulaer, Harald,; Eeckhout, Patricia Van den,; Gooren, Henny,; Gálvez-Muñoz, Lina,; Heger, Hans,; Heikkinen, Sakari,; Huberman, Michael,; Humphries, Jane,; Johnson, Paul,; King, Steven,; Muldrew, Craig,; Reith, Reinhold,; Scholliers, Peter,; Schwarz, Leonard,
• HerausgeberIn: Scholliers, Peter,; Schwarz, Leonard,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: International Studies in Social History ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER 1 THE WAGE IN EUROPE SINCE THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY --; CUSTOM, WAGES AND THE MARKET --; CHAPTER 2 INSTITUTIONAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN WAGE FORMATION: PORT LABOUR IN ANTWERP (SIXTEENTH–EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES) --; CHAPTER 3 WHEN LABOUR HIRES CAPITAL: EVIDENCE FROM LANCASHIRE, 1870–1914 --; CHAPTER 4 GIVING NOTICE: THE LEGITIMATE WAY OF QUITTING AND FIRING (GHENT, 1877–1896) --; CHANGING PAY SYSTEMS AND WAGE FORMS --; CHAPTER 5 WAGE FORMS, WAGE SYSTEMS AND WAGE CONFLICTS IN GERMAN CRAFTS DURING THE EIGHTEENTH AND EARLIER NINETEENTH CENTURIES --; CHAPTER 6 WAGE FORMS, PAY SYSTEMS AND LABOUR CONTROL IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AGRICULTURE. EVIDENCE FROM THE DUTCH PROVINCE OF GRONINGEN --; CHAPTER 7 CASH, WAGES AND THE ECONOMY OF MAKESHIFTS IN ENGLAND, 1650–1800 --; AGE, GENDER AND WAGES --; CHAPTER 8 GENDERED WAGE SYSTEMS AND INDUSTRIALISATION IN FINLAND IN THE LATE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES --; CHAPTER 9 ENGENDERING THE EXPERIENCE OF WAGES: THE EVOLUTION OF THE PIECEWORK SYSTEM AT THE SPANISH TOBACCO MONOPOLY, 1800–1930S --; CHAPTER 10 AGE, GENDER AND THE WAGE IN BRITAIN, 1830–1930 --; CHAPTER 11 AT WHAT COST WAS PRE-EMINENCE PURCHASED? CHILD LABOUR AND THE FIRST INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION --; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857456847; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857456847
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Peter Scholliers, Leonard Schwarz.

When discussing wages, historians have traditionally concentrated on the level of wages, much less on how people were paid for their work. Important aspects were thus ignored such as how frequently were wages actually paid, how much of the wage was paid in non-monetary form - whether as traditional perquisites or community relief - especially when there was often insufficient coinage available to pay wages. Covering a wide geographical area, ranging from Spain to Finland, and time span, ranging from the sixteenth century to the 1930s, this volume offers fresh perspectives on key areas in social and economic history such as the relationship between customs, moral economy, wages and the market, changing pay and wage forms and the relationship between age, gender and wages.