The Problem of Labour in Fourteenth-Century England
by James Bothwell, P.J.P. Goldberg, W. M. Ormrod
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At the very moment that the image of the honest labourer seemed to reach its apogee in the Luttrell Psalter or, a few decades later, in 'Piers Plowman', the dominant culture of the landed interests was increasingly suspicious of what it described as the idleness, greed and arrogance of the lower orders. Labour was one of the central issues during the fourteenth century: the natural disasters and profound social changes of the period created not merely a 'problem' of labour, but also new ways show more of discussing and (supposedly) solving that problem. These studies engage with the contrasting and often competing discourses which emerged, ranging from the critical social awareness of some of the early fourteenth-century protest literature to the repressive authoritarianism of the new national employment laws that were enforced in the wake of the Black Death, and were expressed in counter-cultures of resistance and dissent. show lessTags
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P.J.P. Goldberg is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, University of York, UK.
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- The Problem of Labour in Fourteenth-Century England
- Alternate titles
- The Problem of Women's Work Identities in Post Black Death England - Cordelia Beattie; Work Ethics in the Fourteenth Century - Christopher Dyer; 'The Lord Geoffrey had me made': Lordship and Labour in the Luttrell Psalter - Richard K. Emmerson and P.J.P. Goldberg; Framing Labour: The Archaeology of York's Medieval Guildhalls - Kate Giles; The Problem of Labour in the Context of English Government, c. 1350-1450 - Chris Given-Wilson; The Voice of Labour in Fourteenth-Century English Literature - Stephen Knight (show all 8); Piers Plowman and the Problem of Labour - Derek Pearsall; Household, Work and the Problem of Mobile Labour: The Regulations of Labour in Medieval English Towns - Sarah Rees Jones
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- Nonfiction, Economics, History, Business
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- 331.0942 — Society, government, & culture Economics Labor economics History, geographic treatment, biography Europe England & Wales
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- HD8399 .E52 .P734 — Social sciences Industries. Land use. Labor Industries. Land use. Labor Labor. Work. Working class By region or country
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