Andrea Caracausi
Biographic Data
| ID | 307430 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Caracausi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Caracausi |
| SIGNATURE | CARACAUSI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Padua |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0564-8696 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Work and workplaces in early modern Naples
This article employs a gendered analysis to explore work and workplaces in Naples during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Using a work-task approach with judicial sources, it offers a novel investigation into the economic activity of women in southern Italy. The results demonstrate that women played an active role in all sectors of the economy, beyond domestic and care work. Spatial analysis unveils an intricate labour system characterized …
Exploring women’s work in early modern rural Italy
This article examines women’s work in rural areas of the Republic of Venice between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a focus on the district of Padua. By applying the verb-oriented method to judicial sources, it reconstructs a detailed and nuanced picture of female labour, highlighting the extent and continuity of women’s economic activities. The findings show that women were engaged across all sectors of the economy, including sect…
Between Innovation and Resistance
The historiographical debate about the influence of guilds on economic development and innovation lacks consensus. Scholars are divided: some argue that guilds fostered a positive environment for technological innovation through privileges that ensured profits for inventors, while others underline the guilds' role in stifling innovation to protect their interests. This article undertakes a comparative analysis of ribbon manufacturing in early mod…
Remunerating Labour in a Long- Term Perspective
Adoption and Fosterage Practices in the Late Medieval and Modern Age
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A reassessment of the role of guild courts in disputes over apprenticeship contracts
This article analyses the mechanisms of conflict resolution in apprenticeship contracts using a large database of disputes from early modern Italy. It finds that the guild court under investigation (the Padua Woollen Guild court) did not enforce training contracts, but rather sought to improve on incomplete contracts by adding clauses, thereby helping individuals renegotiate and redefine the contractual arrangements into which they had decided to…
Lester K. Little. Indispensable Immigrants
Alberto, the leading protagonist of this book, was a wine porter in the city of Cremona, where he lived until his death in 1279. He was probably from Villa d’Ogna, a village up in Bergamo’s mountainous hinterland, located about eighty kilometers from Milan in the region of Lombardy. As a poor peasant leaving home and the fields where he had worked since boyhood, he migrated to Cremona following the example of many peers at that time. There he bec…
Information asymmetries and craft guilds in pre-modern markets
This article analyses the relationship between guilds and information asymmetries using a large database of quality disputes from early modern Italy. It finds that a high-quality urban textile industry was able to solve externalities using a range of ex ante and ex post monitoring mechanisms based on private market relationships and fair sanctions which effectively reduced adverse selection and information asymmetries. Instead, when guilds did us…
Beaten Children and Women's Work in Early Modern Italy
Journal Article Beaten Children and Women's Work in Early Modern Italy Get access Andrea Caracausi Andrea Caracausi University of Padua Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 222, Issue 1, February 2014, Pages 95–128, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtt043 Published: 04 January 2014
Mesurer et contrôler. Les temps de l'organisation du travail dans les manufactures de laine de Padoue (xvie-xviie siècles)
L’article étudie les formes et les méthodes utilisées dans la mesure du temps de travail à l’époque moderne, en prenant comme objet d’étude les manufactures lainières de Padoue entre les xvi e et xvii e siècles. Il montre comment la relation établie entre temps et travail avait contribué à la régulation et au calcul de la productivité réelle du travailleur, ainsi qu’à la création de systèmes d’incitation et de formes de contrôle direct sur le tra…
The Just Wage in Early Modern Italy
This article aims to understand norms and values pertaining to the definition of just wages in early modern Italy. The starting point is the treatise by the jurist Lanfranco Zacchia, De Salario seu Operariorum Mercede , which appeared in the mid-seventeenth century and represented the first attempt to collate a set of rules on wages based on the traditions of Roman and canon law. After a brief presentation of the treatise, I shall analyse the mea…
Information asymmetries and craft guilds in pre-modern markets
This article analyses the relationship between guilds and information asymmetries using a large database of quality disputes from early modern Italy. It finds that a high-quality urban textile industry was able to solve externalities using a range of ex ante and ex post monitoring mechanisms based on private market relationships and fair sanctions which effectively reduced adverse selection and information asymmetries. Instead, when guilds did us…
The Just Wage in Early Modern Italy
This article aims to understand norms and values pertaining to the definition of just wages in early modern Italy. The starting point is the treatise by the jurist Lanfranco Zacchia, De Salario seu Operariorum Mercede , which appeared in the mid-seventeenth century and represented the first attempt to collate a set of rules on wages based on the traditions of Roman and canon law. After a brief presentation of the treatise, I shall analyse the mea…
Work and workplaces in early modern Naples
This article employs a gendered analysis to explore work and workplaces in Naples during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Using a work-task approach with judicial sources, it offers a novel investigation into the economic activity of women in southern Italy. The results demonstrate that women played an active role in all sectors of the economy, beyond domestic and care work. Spatial analysis unveils an intricate labour system characterized …
A reassessment of the role of guild courts in disputes over apprenticeship contracts
This article analyses the mechanisms of conflict resolution in apprenticeship contracts using a large database of disputes from early modern Italy. It finds that the guild court under investigation (the Padua Woollen Guild court) did not enforce training contracts, but rather sought to improve on incomplete contracts by adding clauses, thereby helping individuals renegotiate and redefine the contractual arrangements into which they had decided to…
Beaten Children and Women's Work in Early Modern Italy
Journal Article Beaten Children and Women's Work in Early Modern Italy Get access Andrea Caracausi Andrea Caracausi University of Padua Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 222, Issue 1, February 2014, Pages 95–128, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtt043 Published: 04 January 2014
The Just Wage in Early Modern Italy
This article aims to understand norms and values pertaining to the definition of just wages in early modern Italy. The starting point is the treatise by the jurist Lanfranco Zacchia, De Salario seu Operariorum Mercede , which appeared in the mid-seventeenth century and represented the first attempt to collate a set of rules on wages based on the traditions of Roman and canon law. After a brief presentation of the treatise, I shall analyse the mea…
Mesurer et contrôler. Les temps de l'organisation du travail dans les manufactures de laine de Padoue (xvie-xviie siècles)
L’article étudie les formes et les méthodes utilisées dans la mesure du temps de travail à l’époque moderne, en prenant comme objet d’étude les manufactures lainières de Padoue entre les xvi e et xvii e siècles. Il montre comment la relation établie entre temps et travail avait contribué à la régulation et au calcul de la productivité réelle du travailleur, ainsi qu’à la création de systèmes d’incitation et de formes de contrôle direct sur le tra…
Beaten Children and Women's Work in Early Modern Italy
Journal Article Beaten Children and Women's Work in Early Modern Italy Get access Andrea Caracausi Andrea Caracausi University of Padua Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 222, Issue 1, February 2014, Pages 95–128, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtt043 Published: 04 January 2014
A reassessment of the role of guild courts in disputes over apprenticeship contracts
This article analyses the mechanisms of conflict resolution in apprenticeship contracts using a large database of disputes from early modern Italy. It finds that the guild court under investigation (the Padua Woollen Guild court) did not enforce training contracts, but rather sought to improve on incomplete contracts by adding clauses, thereby helping individuals renegotiate and redefine the contractual arrangements into which they had decided to…
Lester K. Little. Indispensable Immigrants
Alberto, the leading protagonist of this book, was a wine porter in the city of Cremona, where he lived until his death in 1279. He was probably from Villa d’Ogna, a village up in Bergamo’s mountainous hinterland, located about eighty kilometers from Milan in the region of Lombardy. As a poor peasant leaving home and the fields where he had worked since boyhood, he migrated to Cremona following the example of many peers at that time. There he bec…
Information asymmetries and craft guilds in pre-modern markets
This article analyses the relationship between guilds and information asymmetries using a large database of quality disputes from early modern Italy. It finds that a high-quality urban textile industry was able to solve externalities using a range of ex ante and ex post monitoring mechanisms based on private market relationships and fair sanctions which effectively reduced adverse selection and information asymmetries. Instead, when guilds did us…
Adoption and Fosterage Practices in the Late Medieval and Modern Age
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Remunerating Labour in a Long- Term Perspective
Between Innovation and Resistance
The historiographical debate about the influence of guilds on economic development and innovation lacks consensus. Scholars are divided: some argue that guilds fostered a positive environment for technological innovation through privileges that ensured profits for inventors, while others underline the guilds' role in stifling innovation to protect their interests. This article undertakes a comparative analysis of ribbon manufacturing in early mod…
Work and workplaces in early modern Naples
This article employs a gendered analysis to explore work and workplaces in Naples during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Using a work-task approach with judicial sources, it offers a novel investigation into the economic activity of women in southern Italy. The results demonstrate that women played an active role in all sectors of the economy, beyond domestic and care work. Spatial analysis unveils an intricate labour system characterized …
Exploring women’s work in early modern rural Italy
This article examines women’s work in rural areas of the Republic of Venice between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a focus on the district of Padua. By applying the verb-oriented method to judicial sources, it reconstructs a detailed and nuanced picture of female labour, highlighting the extent and continuity of women’s economic activities. The findings show that women were engaged across all sectors of the economy, including sect…
Historical Economic and Social Studies (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Historical Economic and Legal Thought (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Guild (3 works) · History (3 works) · Art history (2 works)