New publication Short-term Labour and Precarious Work in Northern Europe, c. 1620-1870, edited by Ella Viitaniemi and Sofia Gustafsson, offers a new perspective on the concept of work in a premodern context, exploring parallel, short-term and seasonal jobs. The edited volume highlights the diversity of work and careers amongst different social groups in the early modern period, and reminds that stable, long-term employment was uncommon in Northern Europe until the advent of large-scale industrialisation and the emergence of the welfare state.
Many of the researchers contributing to the volume are members of Trivium, including the editor and the leader of the research project behind the book, Ella Viitaniemi.
The work is open access, and it can be read here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-14760-8