Women, work, and wages in England, 1600-1850 /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2004.
Description:	xi, 239 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Women -- Employment -- England -- History. Women -- England -- Economic conditions. Women -- England -- Social conditions. Sex role -- England -- History. Sex role. Women -- Economic conditions. Women -- Employment. Women -- Social conditions. England. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5701387

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Other authors / contributors:	Lane, Penelope. Raven, Neil, 1967- Snell, K. D. M.
ISBN:	1843830779 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-232) and index.

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.

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