Matrix of Work : Through a Dark Valley - On the Road to Prosperity and Freedom?! (Work in Global and Historical Perspective)

Neumann, Horst/ Markert, Cornelius/ Amlinger, Marc

De Gruyter（2026/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版
• 商品コード 9783119145695

Description

This series will trace at the example of work the historical connections between regions and critically engage with the idea of the North Atlantic World as normal and the rest as exceptional. The aim is to publish studies that change focus back and forth from the intimacy and complexity of relationships in specific places and their connections to distant places and long-term processes of change thereby looking beyond locality and region.

The "Matrix of Work" provides an interdisciplinary "big picture" of the global history of human work from its beginnings to the end of the 21st century. In the sense of a matrix, the book encompasses both an in-depth analysis of the essential structural elements of the epochs of work and an examination of overarching dimensions across epochal boundaries.

Empirical research forms the core of the matrix materials. It includes an extensive compilation of data from the disciplines of economic and social statistics, archaeology, ethnology and global historical research on productivity, working and living hours, domestic and family work, consumption baskets and their distribution, and much more. These findings are presented in the form of timelines, tables and informative graphics. Based on this data and knowledge of the current state of research in these fields, theses are formulated to understand the big picture.

Anyone with an interest in the history and future of work will find new insights, thought-provoking arguments, and distinctive set of long-term data highly valuable.

Cornelius Markert, Marc Amlinger, Horst Neumann, IGZA, Berlin.