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Title:

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

Publisher:

Boydell Press,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

xi, 239 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women--History.--England--History.
Women--England--Economic conditions.
Women--England--Social conditions.
Sex role--England--History.

Other Authors:

Lane, Penelope. edt
Raven, Neil, 1967- edt
Snell, K. D. M. edt

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

9781843830771 (cloth : alk. paper)
1843830779 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)54006507

LCCN:

2004000050

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UUAX975 -- Briar Cliff University - Mueller Library (Sioux City)