Working Lives in Ancient Rome

This book sheds new light on labor and laboring in the Roman world. It starts with the individual laborer and works up, emphasizing their agency in navigating, transforming, and transcending the systems and structures around them. Taking advantage of the broad applicability of notions of work and labor to human lives at every rung of Roman society, the volume also offers numerous overlapping frameworks for thinking comparatively between many different kinds of work, whether in agriculture, craft, trade, politics, art, or literature. The book is organized around the 'typical' work-life experience of the modern 9-to-5 and provides a means of thinking in a rigorous way about how the working lives of scholars of Rome are caught up in ancient discourse and practices.

Author: del A. Maticic
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/27/2024
Series: New Antiquity
Pages: 407
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9783031612336
2024 Edition