Abstract

BORGOGNONI, Ezequiel. Notes for the study of trades and night work in Hispanic cities: 14th -16th. Rev. Esc. Hist. [online]. 2015, vol.14, n.1, pp.00-00. ISSN 1669-9041.

In the "Ordenamiento de Valladolid  (1351)" it is stated that paid work was from dawn to dusk. This expression was used to referred to the temporal rhythm of the world of work. Since the study of other realities of the Iberian Peninsula, specialists could know that this law was not only enacted in Valladolid. Contrary to expectations, such references as general pattern were repeated in the vast majority of municipal laws passed by Hispanic cities from the late Middle Ages and early modernity. Until the last decades of the twentieth century, historians of the world of work relied on such sources even knowing that the proper scope of legal standards is what "should be done" which is different from what is "done" It is marking what really happened. In recent years, experts have pointed out that men and women of pre-industrial societies did not have strict timetables. Therefore, they have indicated that it is not possible to talk about working time in the singular but in the plural, meaning, different rhythms and dependening on seasonal work. In this article, we will study the colonization of the night work shift that took place in the Hispanic urban world in the transition to early modernity. The identification of a series of work activities that were initiated during the day but continued throughout the night, as well as the recognition of those trades that were essentially nocturnal, will allow us to have a  comprehensive overview of what  the world work in preindustrial societies was.

Keywords : Work; Night; Urban world; Late Middle Ages; Early modernity.

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