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| Author: | Verdon, N. |
| Title: | The rural labour market in the early nineteenth century: women's and children's employment, family income, and the 1834 Poor Law Report |
| Journal: | Economic History Review
2002 : MAY, VOL. 55:2, p. 299-323 |
| Index terms: | ECONOMICS ECONOMIC HISTORY LABOUR EMPLOYMENT |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Much more is now known about the types and amount of work which rural women performed, the terms of their engagement, and the level of remuneration they could expect to receive in certain localities in England between 1700 and 1900. Such studies have stimulated a more focused analysis of the impact of gender, age, locality, and custom on the agrarian workforce without resorting to outmoded sweeping generalizations about rural labour. This approach can only be encouraged. Yet this research also needs to be placed within the wider context: the authors must continue to assess the broad patterns in rural women's and children's work and wages countrywide to augment the authors' comparative understanding of the different regions of England. This article is an attempt to revive this perspective. |
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