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VIOLLAB · Violence and Labour Discipline in Early Modern Britain

„Хоризонт Европа“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2023-10-01 → 2025-09-30
Финансиране от ЕС: 172 750 €
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Схема: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

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Накратко на български

Физическото наказание на работниците от работодателите в Британия между 1550 и 1800 г. е в центъра на анализа. Това помага да се разбере как е функционирала трудовата дисциплина и законът преди появата на съвременните организации за защита на работниците.

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Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

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Violence and Labour Discipline in Early Modern Britain

VIOLLAB investigates the causes and consequences of disciplinary violence—physical punishment used by employers, masters, and overseers to correct workers and enforce discipline—in Britain from c. 1550 to 1800. Although workplace violence is recognized today as a major social and economic problem, the project suggests that it has a deep and largely unexplored history. VIOLLAB examines how disciplinary violence operated across sectors of the early modern British economy as it transitioned toward agrarian and industrial capitalism and became increasingly dependent on bound (indentured and enslaved) labour in colonial contexts. By reconstructing both how and why disciplinary violence was used, and how workers and legal institutions responded to it, the project aims to enhance scholarly understanding of work, labour discipline, and law before modern labour protections and workers’ organizations existed. VIOLLAB provides the first systematic historical analysis of workplace disciplinary violence in early modern Britain. It reveals the ideologies and practical logics that justified violent labour discipline; highlights workers’ varied responses, from solidarity to acceptance of “justified” correction; and clarifies the ambiguous and contested legal status of disciplinary violence, showing how law could both empower and constrain workers. Ultimately, the project offers new insight into the lived experiences of workers and the evolution of labour discipline during a period of major economic transformation.It explores connections between British labour practices and bound (indentured and enslaved) labour in the Caribbean, offering fresh insight into how ideas about violence and discipline circulated within the British Empire and the interconnectedness of metropolitan and colonial labour regimes. Furthermore, by linking past and present forms of workplace coercion, the project offers historical context to contemporary concerns about work-related violence. Modern policymakers, unions, and occupational safety experts gain new historical insight into how violence has been justified, normalized, resisted, and legally regulated, helping to deepen current debates on safe working environments.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

A 2010 report by the European Agency for Health and Safety at Work (EU-OSHA) notes that work-related violence is a ‘serious issue’ facing workers today. It also results in ‘substantial’ economic losses, through workers’ demoralized absenteeism and reduced productivity. Work-related violence, however, is not a new phenomenon; it has a history. VIOLLAB seeks to provide the first analysis of the causes and consequences of one type of work- related violence in Britain, c. 1550-1800: disciplinary violence. It defines ‘disciplinary violence’ as fatal and non-fatal physical violence (e.g., beatings) that employers or managers used to correct workers’ infractions and to instil a sense of discipline in them. Combining methods from social, economic, and labour history with analytical insights from the sociology of work, VIOLLAB uses a range of sources to shed new light on how disciplinary violence influenced contemporary practices and theories of labour management; (gendered and aged-based) experiences of work; and the legal system's mediation of worker-employer relations. By analyzing the causes and consequences of disciplinary violence across different sectors of the British economy as it was transitioning to agrarian and industrial capitalism and becoming increasingly reliant on unfree labour for the production of colonial commodities, VIOLLAB aims to make transformative contributions to scholarship on work, labour relations/discipline, and the law in a period before the existence of modern labour protection laws and workers’ organizations, and to raise public awareness about problems of work in the 21st century.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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