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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Lane, Penelope, Raven, Neil, 1967-, Snell, K. D. M.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2004.
Subjects:	Women > Employment > England > History. Women > England > Economic conditions. Women > England > Social conditions. Sex role > England > History.

Table of 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.