Work division and social environment: the Portuguese fisheries in the end of XVIIIth

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2003

Authors

Inês Amorim (Author) FLUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Dealing With Diversity

Pages: 74-80

2nd International Conference of the European Society for Environment History

Praga, Charles University of Praga, Faculty of Science, 3 a 7 Setembro 2003

Scientific classification

FOS: Humanities > Other humanities

CORDIS: Natural sciences > Environmental science > Natural resources management ; Humanities > History

Other information

Abstract (EN): The Portuguese brotherhoods, confraternities or guilds (confrarias) weren’t organised workers’ groups, like happens in Catalonia or France Mediterranean but symbols of religiousness. We try to describe his behaviour in two point of the Portuguese Coast were the introduction and the efficiency of the new techniques of fishing and salting constrained to a new model of work division and social environment, which means, the interaction of economic growth, state interventionism and fisher profile

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific