TY - BOOK ID - 142499107 TI - The problem of labour in fourteenth-century England AU - Bothwell, James. AU - Goldberg, P. J. P. AU - Ormrod, W. M. PY - 2000 SN - 9786610545971 1846151384 1280545976 0585496781 1903153042 PB - Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : York Medieval Press, DB - UniCat KW - Labor KW - Working class KW - History KW - Black Death. KW - Dissent. KW - Employment. KW - Labour. KW - New national employment laws. KW - Resistance. KW - Social changes. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142499107 AB - At the very moment that the image of the honest labourer seemed to reach its apogee in the Luttrell Psalter or, a few decades later, in 'Piers Plowman', the dominant culture of the landed interests was increasingly suspicious of what it described as the idleness, greed and arrogance of the lower orders. Labour was one of the central issues during the fourteenth century: the natural disasters and profound social changes of the period created not merely a 'problem' of labour, but also new ways of discussing and (supposedly) solving that problem. These studies engage with the contrasting and often competing discourses which emerged, ranging from the critical social awareness of some of the early fourteenth-century protest literature to the repressive authoritarianism of the new national employment laws that were enforced in the wake of the Black Death, and were expressed in counter-cultures of resistance and dissent. ER -