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- Title
Regulating Work, Wages, and Time in the Craft Institutions of Medieval Normandy (Twelfth to Fourteenth Century).
- Authors
Rivière, François
- Abstract
According to historical literature, medieval remunerations were either strictly regulated or negotiated in segmented labour markets. The systematic analysis of a corpus of normative sources from Normandy provides new data to shed light on those divergent views. Early guilds of artisans did have leverage on remunerations, but such privileges were scarce and attempts to negotiate remunerations on hiring places were repressed. Written tariffs developed from the end of the thirteenth century, long before the Black Death, but remained rare. Other variables related to remunerations were more important than money in work conflicts, especially working hours. The extant tariffs were regularly revised, sometimes explicitly due to monetary mutations. Written tariffs concerned mostly the brokers or specific trades like the stevedores. The price of bread or wine could also be locally fixed by the authorities, which influenced the remunerations of the bakers and the wine merchants.
- Subjects
MINIMUM wage; WAGE laws; LABOR market; LABOR arbitration; LABOR disputes; WORKING hours; BAKERS; VINTNERS
- Publication
Comparativ: Leipziger Beiträge zur Universalgeschichte und Vergleichenden Gesellschaftsforschung, 2022, Vol 32, Issue 1, p17
- ISSN
0940-3566
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.26014/j.comp.2022.01.02