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Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:06:08, subject to the Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S002085901100071X https://www.cambridge.org/core CONTENTS The Joy and Pain of Work: Global Attitudes and Valuations, 1500–1650 Edited by Karin Hofmeester and Christine Moll-Murata Notes on Contributors The Joy and Pain of Work: Global Attitudes and Valuations, 1500–1650 Introduction Karin Hofmeester and Christine Moll-Murata 1 Studying Attitudes to Work Worldwide, 1500–1650: Concepts, Sources, and Problems of Interpretation Marcel van der Linden 25 Labour Ideologies and Women in the Northern Netherlands, c.1500–1800 Ariadne Schmidt 45 Between Sin and Salvation: The Seventeenth-Century Dutch Artisan Pieter Plockhoy and His Ethics of Work Henk Looijesteijn 69 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 Luca Mocarelli 89 The Just Wage in Early Modern Italy: A Reflection on Zacchia’s De Salario seu Operariorum Mercede Andrea Caracausi 107 The Religious Aspect of Labour Ethics in Medieval and Early Modern Russia Arkadiy E. Tarasov 125 Jewish Ethics and Women’s Work in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Arab-Islamic World Karin Hofmeester 141 terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002085901100071X Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:06:08, subject to the Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S002085901100071X https://www.cambridge.org/core Work Ethics and Work Valuations in a Period of Commercialization: Ming China, 1500–1644 Christine Moll-Murata 165 Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Confucian Moral Universe of Late Ming China (1550–1644) Harriet T. Zurndorfer 197 Japan in the Seventeenth Century: Labour Relations and Work Ethics Regine Mathias 217 The World of Labour in Mughal India (c.1500–1750) Shireen Moosvi 245 Norms of Professional Excellence and Good Conduct in Accountancy Manuals of the Mughal Empire Najaf Haider 263 Labour Ideologies and Labour Relations in Colonial Portuguese America, 1500–1700 Tarcisio R. Botelho 275 Free and Unfree Labour in the Colonial Andes in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Raquel Gil Montero 297 terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002085901100071X Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:06:08, subject to the Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S002085901100071X https://www.cambridge.org/core NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Tarcisio R. Botelho, Department of History, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Avenida Antônio Carlos, 6627, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil; e-mail: tbotelho@fafich.ufmg.br Andrea Caracausi, Department of History, University of Padua, Via del Vescovado, 30, 35141 Padua, Italy; e-mail: andrea.caracausi@unipd.it Raquel Gil Montero, Instituto Superior de Estudios Sociales, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnologicas (CONICET- UNT), San Lorenzo 429, 4000 San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina; e-mail: raquelgilmontero@conicet.gov.ar Najaf Haider, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India; e-mail: snajafhaider@yahoo.co.in Karin Hofmeester, Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Cruquiusweg 31, 1019 AT Amsterdam, The Netherlands; e-mail: kho@iisg.nl Marcel van der Linden, Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Cruquiusweg 31, 1019 AT Amsterdam, The Netherlands; e-mail: mvl@iisg.nl Henk Looijesteijn, Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Cruquiusweg 31, 1019 AT Amsterdam, The Netherlands; e-mail: hlo@iisg.nl Regine Mathias, Faculty of East Asian Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstrasse 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany; e-mail: regine.mathias@rub.de Luca Mocarelli, Departimento di Economia Politica, Università di Milano Bicocca, Edificio U6, Piazza dell’Ateneo Nuovo, 1, 20126 Milano, Italy; e-mail: luca.mocarelli@unimib.it Christine Moll-Murata, Faculty of East Asian Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstrasse 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany; e-mail: Christine.Moll-Murata@rub.de Shireen Moosvi, Centre of Advanced Study in History, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (UP), 202002 India; e-mail: shireen.moosvi@gmail.com Ariadne Schmidt, Institute for History, Economic and Social History, Leiden University, PO Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands; e-mail: a.schmidt@hum.leidenuniv.nl Arkadiy E. Tarasov, Faculty of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Lomonovsky Prospekt 27-4, Moscow 119992, Russia; e-mail: tarasov@histmsu.ru Harriet T. Zurndorfer, Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Leiden University, PO Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands; e-mail: h.t.zurndorfer@hum.leidenuniv.nl terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002085901100071X Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:06:08, subject to the Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S002085901100071X https://www.cambridge.org/core