Studies on the History of Society and Culture

by Richard Biernacki

Book Overview

This monumental study demonstrates the power of culture to define the meaning of labor. Drawing on massive archival evidence from Britain and Germany, as well as historical evidence from France and Italy, The Fabrication of Labor shows how the very nature of labor as a commodity differed fundamentally in different national contexts. A detailed comparative study of German and British wool textile mills reveals a basic difference in the way labor was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520084918
• ISBN13: 9780520084919
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 590 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.