@article{1484173,
      recid = {1484173},
      author = {Almási, Gábor, and Lizzul, Giorgio,},
      title = {Rethinking the work ethic in premodern Europe /},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 336 pages) :},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {This book is an excellent and highly welcome contribution  to the history of the work ethic, as it reveals both  surprising continuities and profound historical variations  in the long-term assessment of work. Josef Ehmer, Professor  Emeritus of History, University of Vienna, Austria These  masterful essays recover a multi-faceted discourse of work  in European thought cutting across genres, confessions,  geo-political borders, and occupational groups. Among this  volumes many points of interest, the early forms of  workaholism traced here have profound contemporary  relevance. Sarah Gwyneth Ross, Professor of History, Boston  College, USA This book investigates how work ethics in  Europe were conceptualised from the Middle Ages to the  nineteenth century. Through analysis of a range of  discourses, it focuses on the roles played by intellectuals  in formulating, communicating, and contesting ideas about  work and its ethical value. The book moves away from the  idea of a singular Weberian work ethic as fundamental to  modern notions of work and instead emphasises how different  languages of work were harnessed for a variety of social,  intellectual, religious, economic, political, and  ideological objectives. Rather than a singular work ethic  that left a decisive mark on the development of Western  culture and economy, the volume stresses plurality. The  essays draw on approaches from intellectual, social, and  cultural history. They explore how, why, and in what  contexts labour became an important and openly promoted  value; who promoted or opposed hard work and for what  reasons; and whether there was an early modern break with  ancient and medieval discourses on work. These historicized  visions of work ethics help enrich our understanding of  present-day changing attitudes to work. Gbor Almsi is  Senior Researcher of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo  Latin Studies, Innsbruck, Austria. Giorgio Lizzul is  Post-doctoral Junior Fellow at the Fondazione 1563, Turin,  and Visiting Scholar at the Universit di Torino, Italy.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1484173},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38092-1},
}