AVATARS OF COLLECTIVE LABOUR AGREEMENTS IN PRE-MODERN TIMES
AVATARS OF COLLECTIVE LABOUR AGREEMENTS IN PRE-MODERN TIMES

Summary/Abstract: Since the modern era, amidst the intensification of the conflict between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, one of the basic solutions for social peace has been the collective labour contract – a legal instrument designed to keep both capitalist exploitation and proletarian revolutionary activism under control. In pre-modern times, in the absence of collective contracts, their economic and social functions were performed by other institutions and organisations, which operated in turn in the ancient economy, the feudal agrarian economy and the guild system of medieval manufacturing. Through them, the mechanisms of access to and evolution in the labour market, prices and quality of products, and some forms of social protection were regulated.

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