History Of Work Information System

We offer information on occupations in the past:

• Tens of thousands of occupational titles from countries and languages around the world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
• linked to short descriptions of the content of the work
• linked to images and iconographic essays on the world of work
• computer assisted coding of your occupational titles into HISCO
• a bibliography on the world of work and links to related websites.
• links to ISCO68
• the possibility to add to this website. In the future, there will be:
  • much more of the same
  • texts on the world of work taken from historical encyclopedias
  • measures of class and prestige in the past
  • versions of HISCO in other languages