Tracing the complexity and contradictory nature of work throughout history

A major exploration of the history of work, tracing its complex and contradictory nature throughout time.

“Andrea Komlosy has written an important book on the global history of work during the past 800 years … she thinks about labour on a global scale, thus overcoming a deep Eurocentric bias in much of the labour history as it exists, and she brings feminist conversations on labour into an analysis of virtually all aspects of labour history. Her book is unique, I am not aware of any other such volume.”
—Sven Beckert