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