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The experience of work in early modern England / Jane Whittle, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb, Taylor Aucoin.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) HD5766 .W55 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whittle, Jane, author.
- Hailwood, Mark, author.
- Robb, Hannah, author.
- Aucoin, Taylor, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in economic history. Second series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor economics--England--History--16th century.
- Labor economics.
- Labor economics--England--History--17th century.
- Labor supply--England--History--16th century.
- Labor supply.
- Labor supply--England--History--17th century.
- Labor economics--History.
- Labor supply--History.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 361 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- This book applies the innovative work-task approach to the history of work, which captures the contribution of all workers and types of work to the early modern economy. Drawing on tens of thousands of court depositions, the authors analyse the individual tasks that made up everyday work for women and men, shedding new light on the gender division of labour, and the ways in which time, space, age and marital status shaped sixteenth and seventeenth-century working life. Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, the book deepens our understanding of the preindustrial economy, and calls for us to rethink not only who did what, but also the implications of these findings for major debates about structural change, the nature and extent of paid work, and what has been lost as well as gained over the past three centuries of economic development. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
- Contents:
- Uncovering the world of work
- Working people
- Places of work
- Rhythms of work
- Housework and carework
- Agriculture and food production
- Crafts and construction
- Commerce and money management.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781316519943
- 1316519945
- OCLC:
- 1493665080
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000244638
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