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In the early modern age technological innovations were unimportant
relative to political and social transformations. The size of the
workforce and the number of wage dependent people increased, due in
large part to population growth, but also as a result of changes in
the organization of work. The diversity of workplaces in many
significant economic sectors was on the rise in the 16th-century:
family farming, urban crafts and trades, and large enterprises in
mining, printing and shipbuilding. Moreover, the increasing
influence of global commerce, as accompanied by local and regional
specialization, prompted an increased reliance on forms of
under-compensated and non-compensated work which were integral to
economic growth. Economic volatility swelled the ranks of the
mobile poor, who moved along Europe's roads seeking sustenance, and
the endemic warfare of the period prompted young men to sign on as
soldiers and sailors. Colonists migrated to Europe's territories in
the Americas, Africa, and Asia, while others were forced overseas
as servants, convicts or slaves. The early modern age proved to be
a "renaissance" in the political, social and cultural contexts of
work which set the stage for the technological developments to
come. A Cultural History of Work in the Early Modern Age 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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