In the fields, in the craft workshop and in the mines

An introduction

Abstract

Thinking about and studying work in history often entails an investigation into the heart of the concentrated factory. However, the concentrated urban factory is not the only place of work. Rural worlds have known agricultural work since the Neolithic period, and if we narrow the focus to industrial work, it exists in the country- side as much as in the city, in the field, in the workshop and in the mine. It is this work outside the factory that interests us in this review file.