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.
University of Siena, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-9283-8019
Titolo del capitolo
‘Artigiani’ e ‘salariati’ nello specchio della società urbana dell’Italia tardo-medievale
Autori
Franco Franceschi
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.43
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Curatori
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
1894
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0245-9
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0319-7
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0320-3
Collana
Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5919