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(2024)Bernardino Ramazzini, after a rigorous training and constant industriousness in the clinical and epidemiological field, published, in Latin, in 1700 the first edition of the treatise on the diseases of artisans. He argues, ...
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(2024)The aim of this essay is to outline the evolution of the idea of work in the transition stage from pre-revolutionary absolutism to post-revolutionary liberalism by analyzing the thought of three influential figures who ...
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(2024)Slavery was the material basis of the Greek and Roman flourishing. Indeed there were several different forms in which the laborer was property of the master. In the Middle Ages slavery was largely replaced by other forms ...
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(2024)The theory of labour that the British philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) put forward in the second of the Two Treatises of Government is grounded in the idea that property is legitimated by labour. Although every person ...
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(2024)The chapter explores the conceptualization of work/labour and leisure in Hobbes’ philosophy, with a reference to the judicial, philosophical, and historical context of the English 17th century. In accordance with his time, ...
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(2024)In the early modern era new scientific and philosophical conceptions revolutionized the established picture of culture, and marked a strong historical discontinuity. The essay focuses on the role played by artisans, ...
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(2024)The idealised representation of the otium litteratum as a privileged and sheltered space for intellectual work coexists in Erasmus with the concrete immersion in the frenetic activity of the new publishing industry and the ...
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(2024)In Utopia, an island in the tropics, work is done by all inhabitants, including women and work activity is characterized by social commitment and participation of everybody. The reduced time devoted to daily work and the ...
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(2024)Tomaso Garzoni’s Piazza universale di tutte le professioni del mondo (1585) describes about five hundred kinds of jobs, both intellectual and manual. Garzoni tells the story of each one of them, its origins, its tools, its ...
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(2024)The Sixteenth century gradually overcame the inadequate consideration previously accorded to pratical work. Cornelius Agrippa, De incertitudine scientiarum (1529) treated many menial jobs next to the noble ones, and he had ...
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(2024)The Life of Benvenuto Cellini allows us to understand what work was like for a sixteenth-century craftsman. In Cellini the activity of work detaches itself from necessity and becomes the object of a choice, of continuous ...
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(2024)During the fifteenth century in Italy and in Europe, craftsmen and engineers became the protagonists of an important cultural innovation. The growing literacy of technicians and the introduction of rigorous graphic codes ...
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(2024)Since the Weber-Sombart debate on the birth of capitalism, Alberti's Family Books have been presented as an essential source on the origins of this movement and Alberti himself as a "pioneer of capitalism". The present ...
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(2024)Examining the ideas and representations of work between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment means focusing on a variety of different aspects and perspectives, in which the elements of continuity and discontinuity with ...
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(2024)It was the material conditions that, together with philosophical and religious thought, determined men's attitudes in their time off work and during festivals. If taking solace in life's difficulties in Boethius' thought ...
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(2024)In this essay, we have attempted to sketch the conception of work of a late medieval and early modern merchant who, by now sedentary, was at the head of medium-sized business systems, engaged in manufacturing, trade and ...
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(2024)While medieval guilds failed to absorb and encapsulate the entire world of labour into their fold, the moral, civic and political impact in medieval societies and the role in articulating rank in an increasingly hierarchical ...
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(2024)The subject of this contribution is the divergent image that the urban society of late medieval Italy had of craftsmen and wage earners. Although both groups belonged to the broader category of manual workers, the masters ...
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(2024)During the Middle Ages agriculture and agricultural labor was involved in a new system of values, due to the expansion of Christianity, and this valorization had a great impact on society and economic development of Western ...
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(2024)The contribution analyzes the legal nature of work in medieval legal thought. The starting point is the phenomenon of the liberation of the rural masses. The great juridical question of the worker's freedom is created in ...
