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A Cultural History of Work in the Age of Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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A Cultural History of Work in the Age of Enlightenment (Hardcover)
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
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Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities
The Enlightenment led to revised ideas about work together with new
social attitudes toward work and workers. Coupled with dynamism in
the economy, and the rise of the middling orders, work was more
frequently perceived positively, as a commodity and as a source of
social respectability. This volume explores the cultural
implications of the transition from older systems based on
privilege, control and embedded practices to a more open society
increasingly based on merit and ability. It examines how guild
controls broke down and political and commercial systems loosened.
It also considers the theoretical justifications that brought new
binding ideas, such as the strengthening of ideology on home,
domesticity for the female, and work and politics for the male.
North America embodied the extremes of these transitions with free
workers able to make their way in a society based on ability and
initiative while solidifying the ravages of the slavery system. A
Cultural History of Work in the Age of Enlightenment presents an
overview of the period with essays on economies, representations of
work, workplaces, work cultures, technology, mobility, society,
politics and leisure.
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