<i>Labourers at the Oakes: Changes in the Demand for Female Day-Laborers at a Farm near Sheffield During the Agricultural Revolution</i>

Burnette, Joyce

doi:10.1017/s0022050700022282

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“…Ivy Pinchbeck's classic (1981) work precipitated a discussion of the extent to which the capitalist development of English agriculture displaced women workers and whether this was interrupted in the late 1700s and early 1800s by added-worker effects prompted by inadequate male wages, enlistment in the French wars and changes in the generosity of poor relief (Horrell and Humphries 1995; Burnette 1997, 1999, 2004; Verdon 2002). Even if there were short run interruptions, the long run decline in women's opportunities seems incontrovertible with women fieldworkers working less than one-half of a year by the mid-eighteenth century (Burnette 2007).…”

Section: The Era Of Industrializationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Wages of Women in England, 1260–1850

Humphries¹,

Weisdorf²

2015

J. Econ. Hist.

167

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This paper presents two wage-series for unskilled English women workers 1260-1850, one based on daily wages and one on the daily remuneration implied in annual contracts. The series are compared with each other and with evidence for did not share the post-Black Death "golden age" and so offer little support for a "girl-powered" economic breakthrough; and second that during the industrial revolution, women who were unable to work long hours lost ground relative to men and to women who could work full-time and fell increasingly adrift from any "High Wage Economy." T he trends in men's wages in the centuries after the Black Death are now well accepted. As shown in Figure 1, real wages rose for nearly a century and a half, fell to a plateau in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and then improved slightly by 1850. These trends have been held to track wellbeing, account for demographic transformations,

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Section: The Era Of Industrializationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Wages of Women in England, 1260–1850

Humphries¹,

Weisdorf²

2015

J. Econ. Hist.

167

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“…Los libros de cuentas del predio S'Estorell, y demás predios de la hacienda, muestran jerarquías salariales por cualificación y género eran semejantes a las observadas en otras regiones y periodos: los hombres retenían los trabajos más cualificados (poda, injerto, plantación) y mejor remunerados, mientras las mujeres eran contratadas para las tareas intensivas y reiterativas con inferiores salarios (Garrabou, Pujol & Colomé, 1991: 32-33;Burnette, 1999;Verdon, 2002;Lana, 1995: 142-143;2000: 133-134, 144, 147;Fernández Romero, 2005: 48-55;López Estudillo, 2006;Llopis & García Montero, 2011: 305, 307;Garrabou, Ramon-Muñoz & Tello, 2015: 98). Sin embargo, puede que la intensa demanda de trabajo y una mayor cualificación de algunas labores masculinas del sector oleícola exportador (Martínez Soto, 2002: 250-266) ejercieran una pulsión al alza sobre el conjunto de la estructura salarial del sector que provocara un premio de la especialización (Williamson, 2012): los salarios femeninos y masculinos de los predios olivareros para labores semejantes eran netamente superiores a los de los predios cerealistas.…”

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Mercado de trabajo, género y especialización oleícola: Mallorca a mediados del siglo XVII

Avellà

Pujadas-Mora

2019

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Recently, an intense historiographical debate has developed concerning female participation in rural labour markets and its impact on the gender wage gap before 1800. The underlying hypothesis is that increased participation of women in the labour market should lead to a reduction in the wage gap and a parallel improvement in their life conditions. However, research results to date are inconclusive. This article aims to address some of these issues, using the island of Mallorca during the seventeenth century as a case study. Female par ticipation in the labour market was more intense there than in other Mediterranean and Atlantic regions. In addition, the seasonality of labour demand on the island provoked more instances of collusion than complementarity with regard to agrarian tasks, in contrast with what happened in Atlantic regions. Finally, we also explain why higher rates of female occupation did not necessarily imply a significant reduction of the gender wage gap.

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“…Joyce Burnette's study of the labourers on the Oakes farm in Derbyshire is, however, a very good example of what can be done with farm records, and it will be cited frequently in this paper. 11 In addition to farm accounts like those she used, Census Enumerators' Books will be utilised to provide a more detailed analysis.…”

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Two Labour Markets in Nineteenth-Century English Agriculture: The Trentham Home Farm, Staffordshire

Yamamoto

2004

Rural History

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Traditionally, historians have tended to accept the view that agricultural labourers in nineteenth-century England were subject to seasonal unemployment. In this article, however, it is argued that this is an over-simplification, and that there were in fact two coexisting labour markets. Using two sets of micro data, a wage book and the Census Enumerators' Books, it will be revealed (1) that there were two groups of agricultural labourers: those who were employed throughout the year (core workers) and those employed only in the busiest season (casual workers); (2) that the core workers and casual workers performed different tasks; (3) that they had different places of residence; and (4) that the casual workers' wages were more market-dependent. The movement of wages at the time of the arrival of Irish migrant labourers sheds further light on the different natures of the two markets. While core workers' wages appear to have been unaffected by this change in labour demand, English casual workers' and women's wages increased sensitively.

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Labourers at the Oakes: Changes in the Demand for Female Day-Laborers at a Farm near Sheffield During the Agricultural Revolution

Cited by 18 publications

References 15 publications

The Wages of Women in England, 1260–1850

The Wages of Women in England, 1260–1850

Mercado de trabajo, género y especialización oleícola: Mallorca a mediados del siglo XVII

Two Labour Markets in Nineteenth-Century English Agriculture: The Trentham Home Farm, Staffordshire

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