The subject of this contribution is the divergent image that the urban society of late medieval Italy had of craftsmen and wage earners. Although both groups belonged to the broader category of manual workers, the masters enjoyed the esteem that came from their knowledge, from a recognised ‘savoir faire’, from being workshop owners and employers: a reputation that, to some extent, survived even when the reverses of fortune forced them to liquidate the business and employ themselves as subordinates. Salaried workers, on the other hand, were burdened by the prejudices linked to their condition of dependence, which recalled the idea of servitude, and their assimilation to treacherous and dangerous categories such as vagrants and, more generally, marginal people.
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Chapter Title
‘Artigiani’ e ‘salariati’ nello specchio della società urbana dell’Italia tardo-medievale
Authors
Franco Franceschi
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.43
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Editors
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
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Number of Pages
1894
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
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979-12-215-0245-9
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979-12-215-0319-7
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0320-3
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919