Women, work, and wages in England, 1600-1850. (2004)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Penelope Lane, Neil Raven and K.D.M. Snell.
• Other Names: Lane, Penelope; Raven, Neil, 1967-; Snell, K. D. M
• Contents: Introduction / Jane Humphries and K.D.M. Snell -- 'Waste' children? Pauper apprenticeship under the Elizabethan poor laws, c. 1598-1697 / Steve Hindle -- Gender at sea : women and the East India Company in seventeenth-century London / Pamela Sharpe -- Sickles and scythes revisited : harvest work, wages and symbolic meanings / Michael Roberts -- A customary or market wage? Women and work in the East Midlands, c. 1700-1840 / Penelope Lane -- 'Meer pennies for my baskitt will be enough' : women, work and welfare, 1770-1830 / Steven King -- Caring for the sick poor : poor law nurses in Bedfordshire, c. 1770-1834 / Samantha Williams -- A 'humbler, industrious class of female' : women's employment and industry in the small towns of southern England, c. 1790-1840 / Neil Raven -- A diminishing force? Reassessing the employment of female day labourers in English agriculture, c. 1790-1850 / Nicola Verdon.
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK Rochester, NY : Boydell Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 239 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 331.4/0942/0903; Women -- Employment -- England -- History; Women -- England -- Economic conditions; Women -- England -- Social conditions; Sex role -- England -- History; Femmes -- Angleterre -- Conditions économiques; Femmes -- Angleterre -- Conditions sociales; Rôle selon le sexe -- Angleterre -- Histoire; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Human Resources & Personnel Management; Sex role; Women -- Economic conditions; Women -- Employment; Women -- Social conditions; Vrouwenarbeid; Salarissen; England; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781846152467; 1846152461
• Related ISBNs: 1843830779
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-232) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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