A Historical Casebook of Wage Formation

This edited collection presents 16 new historical cases of wage formation and wage bargaining across the early modern and preindustrial world.

Recent literature has revived an established interest in the economic history of wage formation, underlining the gaps still existing in our understanding of wages composition, quantification, and process of structuring. This collection will shed light on these points, examining diverse topics including in-kind and monetary payments, bonuses and supplements, work contracts, differentials between skilled and unskilled workers, women s work, slavery and coerced labour contracts, and wages in both diachronic and comparative perspective: how wages structure and composition changes across times and spaces (both in terms of geographical areas and urban-rural environments). The book presents case studies from various geographical areas (from South America to India) from the preindustrial period to the contemporary age and features related contributions on the manufacturing sector, agriculture, mining, and public sectors. The book will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of pre-industrial labour markets in economic, social and labour history.

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Chapter 1:
The context for wage determination and wage bargains of the pre-industrial world
Giulio Ongaro, Judy Z. Stephenson, Luca Mocarelli. -
Part 1: Wage bargains at large employers and long run institutions. -
Chapter 2:
Remuneration and Duties in Ottoman Waqfs: The Case of Hafsa Sultan Waqf (16th to 18th Centuries)
Ay enur Karademir. - Chapter 3:
Of Money, Grains, Wine, Wood, and Grounds . Rural Teachers Wages in Early-Modern North-Eastern Switzerland
Gabriela Wüthrich. - Chapter 4:
Work and care of women. The San Michele a Ripa factory
Donatella Strangio. -
Part 2: Making things wages for manufacture at home and in the workshop. -
Chapter 5:
The role of piece rates for home-work in wage formation and living standards in the footwear industry in Spain: long-term evolution and research agenda
José Antonio García-Barrero and Carles Manera. - Chapter 6:

The Main Purpose. Bargaining, Wages and Gender in the 18
^th
Century Piedmontese Silk Manufacture

Mario Grassi. - Chapter 7:
Working Time, Holidays, and Labour Conditions in Early Modern Normandy
Cédric Chambru, Paul Maneuvrier-Hervieu. -
Part 3: Urban markets for work. -
Chapter 8:
Convergences / divergences. Nominal and real wages in building in Rome in the 16th century
Manuel Vaquero Piñeiro. - Chapter 9:
The contribution of payments in-kind to pre-industrial workers remunerations: evidence from Florence and its countryside
Leonardo Ridolfi. - Chapter 10:
Unreal Wages? Daily Wages, Annual Salaries and Labour Incomes in the Early Modern Spain: Seville, 1530-1833
María Isabel Bartolomé Rodríguez, Mario García-Zúñiga, Manuel González-Mariscal, Ernesto López Losa. - Chapter 11:
The determinant of daily wages in a pre-industrial society, Naples 1800-1860: Sources, Occupations, Time and Space
Francesco M. S. Fiore Melacrinis. -
Part 4: Primary production. -
Chapter 12:
Coastal versus inland Flanders: Regional wage formation for agricultural day labourers in the Eighteenth-century
Lore Helsen. - Chapter 13:
Slave Labor and the Determination of Wages in Brazil
Luiz Fernando Saraiva and Elione Silva Guimarães.