Work in a Modern Society

Work in a Modern SocietyWhereas the history of workers and labor movements has been widely researched, the history of work has been rather neglected by comparison. This volume offers original contributions that deal with cultural, social and theoretical aspects of the history of work in modern Europe, including the relations between gender and work, working and soldiering, work and trust, constructions and practices. The volume focuses on Germany but also places the case

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will find in this book the most comprehensive account of China's business development in the last five centuries and many insights into the workings of China's modern business scene

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who have arisen in the Ghetto from its establishment in the sixteenth century to its slow breaking-up in our own day

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In the history of Western ideas of love

initiated within the community itself or by political actors and the broader German public

considerations at stack and system levels