The Editors : György Széll is Prof. em. of the University of Osnabrück (Germany) and Co-chair of the International Network ‘Regional & Local Development of Work & Labour'. Carl-Heinrich Bösling is Deputy Director of the Volkshochschule Osnabrück. Ute Széll is member of the Interdisciplinary Institute for the Cultural History of Early Modern Times at the University of Osnabrück.