The Joy and Pain of Work: Global Attitudes and Valuations, 1500–1650 Introduction

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participated as observers. The editors express their thanks to the English language editor, Chris Gordon, and to the cartographer, Annelieke Vries-Baaijens, for their committed and reliable work on the articles presented here.

In Between Market and Charity: Child Domestic Work and Changing Labor Relations in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul

“…A long-term project being conducted at the IISH: The Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations, 1500-2000 has recently developed a taxonomy of labor relations, based on four large categories: the non-working population, reciprocal, tributary, and commodified labor. 61 According to this categorization, most of the children who lived with or worked for the host Istanbulite families during the 1800-45 period could be classified as non-kin servants performing reciprocal labor. Domestic service sector in Istanbul after 1845, however, witnessed a rapid transformation of labor relations implying a shift from reciprocal to commodified labor.…”

“…The study claims that the nineteenth century witnessed a transformation of labor relations in the domestic service market, which, according to the taxonomy of the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations, 1500-2000, implies the transition from reciprocal to commodified labor. 4 Further, it highlights two important aspects of this transformation. First, the labor of children employed in domestic services underwent a monetization process throughout this period.…”

Ideal versus reality? The domesticity ideal and household labour relations in Dutch industrializing regions, circa 1890

“…As such, this research analyses two sides of the same coin. on the one hand, it examines the working and middle class' perceptions of labour relations in light of their desire for domesticity (see also : Hofmeester & Moll-Murata, 2011). on the other hand, it looks at the actual work activities of working-class households.…”