The joy and pain of work : global attitudes and valuations, 1500-1650 / edited by Karin Hofmeester and Christine Moll-Murata.

Includes bibliographical references.

The joy and pain of work: global attitudes and valuations, 1500-1650 introduction -- Studying attitudes to work worldwide, 1500-1650: concepts, sources, and problems of interpretation -- Labour ideologies and women in the Northern Netherlands, c. 1500-1800 -- Between sin and salvation: the seventeenth-century Dutch artisan Pieter Plockhoy and his ethics of work -- Attitudes to work and commerce in the late Italian renaissance: a comparison between Tomaso Garzoni's La Piazza Universale and Leonardo Fioravanti's Dello Specchio di Scientia Universale -- The just wage in early modern Italy: a reflection on Zacchia's De Salario seu Operariorum Mercede -- The religious aspect of labour ethics in medieval and early modern Russia -- Jewish ethics and women's work in the late medieval and early modern Arab-Islamic world -- Work ethics and work valuations in a period of commercialization: Ming China, 1500-1644 -- Prostitutes and courtesans in the Confucian moral universe of late Ming China (1550-1644) -- Japan in the seventeenth century: labour relations and work ethics -- The world of labour in Mughal India (c. 1500-1750) -- Norms of professional excellence and good conduct in accountancy manuals of the Mughal empire -- Labour ideologies and labour relations in Colonial Portuguese America, 1500-1700 -- Free and unfree labour in the Colonial Andes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.