Wage work

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In the Middle Ages, wage work was the older form of manual labor, which was only made to order and paid individually. In wage work artisanal production for customers is already at the center (as opposed to so-called house work ). The customer provided the raw materials, and craftsmen manufactured the product independently or in-house with their own tools. They were therefore only paid for their work. When the city's fairs and markets had developed further, the craftsmen went over to the price work , worked on stocks and offered their priced products there.

Today the model continues to exist in the concept of contract goods .

literature

  • Karl books : The emergence of the national economy . Numerous editions (1893, 1918).
  • Markus Cerman : Pre-industrial trade and proto-industrialization , in Markus Cerman (ed.): Economy and society. Europe 1000-2000. StudienVerlag, Innsbruck 2011, ISBN 978-3-7065-5023-9 , pp. 211–227.