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Labor in the Ancient World :a colloquium held at Hirschbach (Saxony), April 2005 / Piotr Steinkeller

By: Steinkeller, PiotrContributor(s): Steinkeller, Piotr | Hudson, MichaelMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: :Variety Books Publishers & Distributors | :B-10 Street No 2 West Vinod Nagar Delhi 110092 Series: International Scholars Conference on Ancient Near Eastern Economies, Vol 5Publication details: Hirschbach : Islet Verlag 2016Description: 664p. 24cmISBN: 9783981484236Subject(s): History | History of ancient world (to ca. 499) | Greece to 323 | Labor | Working class | Economic historyDDC classification: 938 STE

Contents:

Introduction : labor in the early states : an early Mesopotamian perspective / Piotr Steinkeller -- Labor, social formation, and the Neolithic revolution / C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky -- Home and work in early Bronze Age Mesopotamia : "ration lists" and "private houses" at Tell Beydar/Nadaba / Walther Sallaberger and Alexander Pruß -- The employment of labor on national building projects in the Ur III period / Piotr Steinkeller -- Building Larsa : labor value, scale and scope-of-economy in Ancient Mesopotamia / Seth Richardson -- Hired labor in the Neo-Assyrian Empire / Karen Radner -- Labor in Babylonia in the first millennium BC / Michael Jursa -- Labor and the pyramids : the Heith el-Ghurab "workers town" at Giza / Mark Lehner -- Problems of authority, compulsion, and compensation in Ancient Egyptian labor practices / Ogden Goelet -- Labor and individuals in Late Bronze Age Pylos / Dimitri Nakassis -- The Mycenaean mobilization of labor in agriculture and building projects : institutions, individuals, compensation, and status in the Linear B tablets / Tom Palaima -- How the organization of labor shaped civilization's takeoff / Michael Hudson.

Summary: The fifth volume in this series sponsored by the 'International scholars conference on ancient near eastern economies' and the 'Institute for the study of long-term economic trends' offers case studies on how labor was mobilized and remunerated in the early Near East and Mediterranean world. The initially voluntary character of labor on public building projects evolved into corvée as the primary way of obtaining labor. Among other characteristics are the minor significance of slave labor; the role of large building projects as a tool of social and political integration; the use of hired workers as a way of dealing with the systemic shortage of labor, and the practice of compensating the employees of?large organizations? with salaries in food and/or land allotments. By late Neolithic times the obligation to supply corvée labor services became the basis for assigning land tenure. The historical data demonstrate that the corvée labor tax became the basis for assigning property rights, not a later intrusion on these rights

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Introduction : labor in the early states : an early Mesopotamian perspective / Piotr Steinkeller --
Labor, social formation, and the Neolithic revolution / C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky --
Home and work in early Bronze Age Mesopotamia : "ration lists" and "private houses" at Tell Beydar/Nadaba / Walther Sallaberger and Alexander Pruß --
The employment of labor on national building projects in the Ur III period / Piotr Steinkeller --
Building Larsa : labor value, scale and scope-of-economy in Ancient Mesopotamia / Seth Richardson --
Hired labor in the Neo-Assyrian Empire / Karen Radner --
Labor in Babylonia in the first millennium BC / Michael Jursa --
Labor and the pyramids : the Heith el-Ghurab "workers town" at Giza / Mark Lehner --
Problems of authority, compulsion, and compensation in Ancient Egyptian labor practices / Ogden Goelet --
Labor and individuals in Late Bronze Age Pylos / Dimitri Nakassis --
The Mycenaean mobilization of labor in agriculture and building projects : institutions, individuals, compensation, and status in the Linear B tablets / Tom Palaima --
How the organization of labor shaped civilization's takeoff / Michael Hudson.

The fifth volume in this series sponsored by the 'International scholars conference on ancient near eastern economies' and the 'Institute for the study of long-term economic trends' offers case studies on how labor was mobilized and remunerated in the early Near East and Mediterranean world. The initially voluntary character of labor on public building projects evolved into corvée as the primary way of obtaining labor. Among other characteristics are the minor significance of slave labor; the role of large building projects as a tool of social and political integration; the use of hired workers as a way of dealing with the systemic shortage of labor, and the practice of compensating the employees of?large organizations? with salaries in food and/or land allotments. By late Neolithic times the obligation to supply corvée labor services became the basis for assigning land tenure. The historical data demonstrate that the corvée labor tax became the basis for assigning property rights, not a later intrusion on these rights

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