… labour statuses which we find in the Roman world might indeed reflect a poorly integrated or
fragmented labour … that we should interpret the diversity of labour statuses not so much as a …

… labour was not as wide-spread in the Roman Empire as in Han China and as we already
saw wage labour … how the history of work and labour in the Roman world compares to that of …

… with the professional identities in the Roman empire, their ways of … the Roman economy.
One of the first questions in the book is: “At what point and why does ‘work’ become a ‘profession…

… In the chapter “Money making, ‘avarice’, and elite strategies of distinction in the Roman
world” (94‒126), E. Mayer tackles the topic of work and social status. M. sets out to prove that …

… In the chapter “Money making, ‘avarice’, and elite strategies of distinction in the Roman
world” (94‒126), E. Mayer tackles the topic of work and social status. M. sets out to prove that …

… shops and workshops in the Roman world conditioned the working lives of the people who
… our view on the history of labour in the Roman world. A little bit of work has been done on this …

Le présent volume est issu d’un important programme de recherche interuniversitaire belge
consacré à l’économie romaine, initié en 2009, dont notre collègue gantois Koen Verboven …

… One obvious ingredient was a large labour supply, and … at work.3 Output of imperial
architecture was also shaped by the utility of building labour and the institutions of the Roman world, …

… illustrating the importance of a study of work in the Roman world, whether as a social or
as … with the labour history of the Roman Empire. The difficult concepts of work, labour and …

… the role of work, workers, and labor in the Roman Empire. The publication constitutes the
second of an envisioned three-part research series, “Structure and Determinants of Economic …