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070124 PS Proseminar (2017S)

Forms of Coreced and Free Labour in Medieval and Early Modern History

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 07.03. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Tuesday 14.03. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Tuesday 21.03. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Tuesday 28.03. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Tuesday 04.04. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Tuesday 25.04. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Tuesday 02.05. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Tuesday 09.05. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Tuesday 16.05. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Tuesday 23.05. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Tuesday 30.05. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Tuesday 13.06. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Tuesday 20.06. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Tuesday 27.06. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Saturday 01.07. 09:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum Geschichte 1 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 10

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The evolutionary view of a world-historical development from unfree to free forms of labour relationships (from “feudalism” to “capitalism”, from “status” to “contract”) has been fundamentally challenged by recent historical scholarship. New interpretations now stress that wage labour was until the second half of the 19th century not solely based on a freely negotiated contract between sellers and buyers of labour power, but involved many elements of servitude. In a global historical perspective the simultaneity and interconnectedness of forms of free and unfree labour relations are debated. From this viewpoint, the early development of capitalism is no longer seen as identical with the establishment of free wage labour, but based on the interaction of different modes of production based on more or less unfree forms of labour. The subject therefore provides opportunities to investigate, compare and relate different forms of labour relationsships within wide historical and spatial dimensions.
The course will be held in weekly sessions during the first two months of the semester during which we will acquire a common base of knowledge of the subject by reading and discussing key texts. This is followed by a period of individual research. It is concluded by a symposium at the end of the semester where the participants present and discuss their research results. At this point a preliminary version of the seminar paper is due. On the basis of the discussions and feed-backs given during the symposium participants have to elaborate improved final versions of their papers until September.

Assessment and permitted materials

Presence, engagement, readings, seminar paper.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Continuous presence (20%), engagement (30%)and the writing of a seminar paper (50%)on a self-chosen subject within the general thematic framework of the course.

Examination topics

Reading list

Micheal L. Bush (ed.), Serfdom and Slavery. Studies in Legal Bondage, Manchester 1996.
Micheal L. Bush (ed.), Servitude in Modern Times, Cambridge 2000.
Alessandro Stanziani (ed.), Labour, Coercion and Economic Growth in Eurasia, 17th-20th Centuries, Leiden u. Boston 2013.
Robert Steinfeld, The Invention of Free Labor. The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870, Chapel Hill 2000.
Marcel van der Linden, Workers of the World. Essays towards a Global Labour History, Leiden u. Boston 2008, chap. 2-4.

Association in the course directory

MA Geschichte 14: Proseminar zu Mittelalter, Neuzeit, Globalgeschichte und Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte (5 ECTS)

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