What is leisure? How does leisure relate to leading a good life? This critical and intelligent study interrogates the basic principles of leisure and demonstrates the continuing relevance of these questions for our society today. It not only explo...Loe edasi...
What is leisure? How does leisure relate to leading a good life? This critical and intelligent study interrogates the basic principles of leisure and demonstrates the continuing relevance of these questions for our society today. It not only explo...Loe edasi...
In the modern Western world, we tend to be insured by the state or for-profit insurers. We have privileged this system over mutual or micro-insurance, whose long and rich history we tend to forget. Yet, mutual and micro-insurance is becoming incre...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Mar-2011, Hardback, Kirjastus: Leuven University Press, ISBN-13: 9789058678577)
For the sake of comparability, it is advisable not to develop new class schemes but to use old ones. Yet presenting a new class scheme - HISCLASS - is exactly what this book does. Unlike existing historical schemes, HISCLASS is international, created...Loe edasi...
Considers endogamy, the custom forbidding marriage outside ones social class, which is central to social history. Marriage choice plays a crucial role in the formation and decay of social classes. Endogamy, the custom forbidding marriage out...Loe edasi...
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A career is defined here as the sequence of training, education, jobs, and non-market work that people progress through from when they begin school or enter the work force until they retire. Historians, economists, and sociologists from a number of c...Loe edasi...
Ineke Maas, Michel de Seve, Andrew Miles, Koen Matthijs, Marco H. D. van van Leeuwen, Soren Edvinsson, Johnny Karlsson, Marianne Jarnaes Erikstad, Jean-Pierre Pelissier, Daniele Rebaudo...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Feb-2002, Hardback, Kirjastus: Leuven University Press, ISBN-13: 9789058671967)
Research on the history of work and social order can be hampered by confusion regarding occupational terminology across time, region, and language. This reference develops an occupational classification system for comparing occupational data from di...Loe edasi...
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Being the youngest child of eight, Maggie is always left behind when it comes to climbing trees and riding bicycles, yet as she waits at home for her siblings to return, she begins to see that she is growing and so knows that she will be able to play...Loe edasi...
This study analyses poor relief in pre-industrial Europe, 1800-1850, as a survival strategy of the poor and a control strategy of the elites. A simple model of poor relief is presented, and tested against the historical records....Loe edasi...
