In the last decades, women’s role in the workforce has dramatically changed, though gender inequality persists and for women, gender identity still prevails over work identity. It is important not to forget or diminish the historical role of women in the labour market though and this book...

This book focuses on urbanization as an attendant consequence of industrialization and sheds light on urban problems such as housing shortages and poverty of jobless people, and the housing and social policies implemented by central and local governments to deal with these problems. Through this...

Das vorliegende Lehrbuch führt griffig und präzise in die Wirtschaftsgeschichte Deutschlands der letzten 1500 Jahre ein. Jeder der drei zeitlichen Abschnitte (500-1350, 1350-1800, 19. und 20. Jh.) behandelt die wesentlichen Faktoren (Soziales, Bildung und Kultur, Bevölkerung und Umwelt,...

When discussing wages, historians have traditionally concentrated on the level of wages, much less on how people were paid for their work. Important aspects were thus ignored such as how frequently were wages actually paid, how much of the wage was paid in non-monetary form - whether as...