"This interdisciplinary volume brings together a richly substantive collection of case studies that examine European-indigene interactions, economic relations, and their materialities in the formation of the modern world. Research has well demonstrated the extent and complexity of the varied...

1. Work and Labour: Meanings and Concepts -- 2. Population, Urbanization and Working People -- 3. Technology, Markets, Specializations and Organization of Production -- 4. Labour Relations -- 5. Labour Conditions -- 5. Work and the Little Divergence