Women, work and wages in England, 1600-1850 / edited by Penelope Lane, Neil Raven and K.D.M. Snell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lane, Penelope.

Raven, Neil, 1967-

Snell, K. D. M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Employment--England--History.

Women.

Women--England--Economic conditions.

Women--England--Social conditions.

Sex role.

History.

Economic conditions.

Women--Employment.

England.

Social conditions.

Sex role--England--History.

Physical Description:

xi, 239 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2004.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-232) and index.

ISBN:

1843830779

OCLC:

54006507