Andrea Komlosy

Work

The Last 1,000 Years
Übersetzer: Watson, Jacob; Balhorn, Loren

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Tracing the complexity and contradictory nature of work throughout history

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso Books
• Seitenzahl: 265
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 142mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9781786634139
• ISBN-10: 1786634139
• Artikelnr.: 68589832

Autorenporträt

Andrea Komlosy is professor at the Department for Social and Economic History at the University of Vienna, Austria, where she is coordinator of the Global History and Global Studies programs. She has published on labor, migration, borders and uneven development on a regional, a European and a global scale. In 2014/15 she was a Schumpeter Fellow at the Whetherhead Center for International Relations at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 Terms and Concepts
2 Work Discourses
3 Work and Language
4 Categories of Analysis
5 Divisions of Labour: The Simultaneity and Combination of (Different)
Labour Relations
6 Historical Cross-Sections
7 Combining Labour Relations in the Longue Durée
Appendix: A Lexical Comparison Across European Languages
Notes
Index

Rezensionen

As Andrea Komlosy argues in Work: The Last 1,000 Years, our conception of what constitutes work has changed markedly over time. The professor of social history at the University of Vienna writes that our commonly accepted definitions are too narrow, too European, too male and too modern John Thornhill Financial Times