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2 février 2018
- handle: 10670/1.6bokcj
- isbn: 9782878542158
- eisbn: 9782878549034
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Martine Azuelos, « Le travail dans l’Angleterre du seizième siècle : une valeur en voie de constitution ? », Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, ID : 10670/1.6bokcj
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The birth of economics is commonly thought to have coincided with the ‘invenrion’of labour in the late eighteenth century. Without questioning this nor the centrality of labour in our contemporary societies, this paper shows that in England at least it was much earlier than 1776, i.e. in late medieval and Renaissance writings, that the previouly disparaging attitudes towards work and labour began to give way to a more positive approach. Under the combined influence of protestant reformers and humanist writers, work which hitherto had been synonymous with manual labour, took on a wider meaning – the act of performing the duties pertainining to one’s estate’ – and was endowed with moral, social and economic value. The great mass of the population, however, failed to interiorise this paradigm shift, as historians have shown.