Work, Identity, and Legal Status of Rome A Study of the Occupational Inscriptions

In Work, Identity, and Legal Status at Rome, Sandra R. Joshel examines Roman commemorative inscriptions from the first and second centuries A.D. to determine ways in which slaves, freed slaves, and unprivileged freeborn citizens used work to frame their identities. The inscriptions indicate the significance of work-as a source of community, a way to reframe the conditions of legal status, an assertion of activity against upper-class passivity, and a standard of assessment based on economic achievement rather than birth. Drawing on sociology, anthropology, ethnography, and women's history, this thoroughly documented volume illuminates the dynamics of work and slavery at Rome.Joshel, Sandra R. is the author of 'Work, Identity, and Legal Status of Rome A Study of the Occupational Inscriptions', published 1993 under ISBN 9780806124445 and ISBN 080612444X.