An ordered synthesis of the evolution of labor in Christian Europe during the Middle Ages. The author sets the working class in the historical framework in which they lived, traces political and social institutions, industrial and agricultural production, the distribution of landed and moveable wealth, and details those economic transformations which gave to the masses a place in society which they had never before occupied.
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Erudite yet readable work traces the economic evolution of Europe from 5th to 15th century. Focusing on working people, it covers breakup of feudal estates, development of small craft industries and large capitalist enterprises, rise of wage laborers, development of technical advances in industry and agriculture, rise of international commerce and finance.
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