Women, work, and wages in England, 1600-1850 /
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Imprint: | Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2004. |
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Description: | xi, 239 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5701387 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Jane Humphries and K. D. M. Snell
- 1. 'Waste' children? : pauper apprenticeship under the Elizabethan poor laws, c. 1598-1697 / Steve Hindle
- 2. Gender at sea : women and the East India Company in seventeenth-century London / Pamela Sharpe
- 3. Sickles and scythes revisited : harvest work, wages and symbolic meanings / Michael Roberts
- 4. A customary or market wage? : women and work in the East Midlands, c. 1700-1840 / Penelope Lane
- 5. 'Meer pennies for my baskitt will be enough' : women, work and welfare, 1770-1830 / Steven King
- 6. Caring for the sick poor : poor law nurses in Bedfordshire, c. 1770-1834 / Samantha Williams
- 7. 'A 'humbler, industrious class of female' : women's employment and industry in the small towns of southern England, c. 1790-1840 / Neil Raven
- 8. A diminishing force? : reassessing the employment of female day labourers in English agriculture, c. 1790-1850 / Nicola Verdon.