Labour in the English Economy of the Seventeenth Century

Coleman, D. C.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0289.1956.tb01570.x

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“…Not until after the Napoleonic Wars were employers successful in regimenting workers. 35 We have come full circle. Facing highly competitive and unpredictable markets and stubborn work forces, the early industrialists like their late sixteenth-and seventeenth-century counterparts-the rising yeomanry and gentry-assumed the typical behavior of calculating, hard-pressed businessmen.…”

Section: Industrial Capitalism and The Second Upswing Of Patriarchymentioning

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Economy and English Families, 1500-1850

Quinlan¹,

Shackelford²

1994

Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. . The MIT Press and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the editors of The Journal of Interdisciplinary History are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Journal of Interdisciplinary History.Once only of incidental concern in economic history, the relationship between the everyday social behavior of lower-class families and fundamental economic transformations has lately been the subject of intensive research and broad theoretical consideration. We have, as a result, a much richer picture of how waves of wholesale changes in the English economy between 1500 and I850 realigned marriage, reproduction, communal relations, and production and consumption among lower-class families, and how those realignments in turn affected the transition to a modern industrial economy. Over the last thirty years, several major studies have also appeared which shed new light on how marriage, fertility, and mortality, the upbringing of children, the structure of kinship and clientage, and the distribution of power in the family shifted between Henry VII and Victoria among the landed classes, the commercial bourgeoisie, and the industrial and professional classes. Yet, unlike similar progress in the study of lower-class families, such strides in our factual understanding of the organization of middle-and upper-class families have not produced any striking theoretical developments that bind these changes to the radical restructuring of the early modern English economy. As new productive techniques and new forms of agricultural and industrial organization were adopted, and as the composition and the economic foundation of social classes shifted, both lower-class and middle-and upper-class families were bound to respond in ways that would maintain either their precarious foothold or their privileged position in a rapidly changing economy.' two anonymous reviewers for comments that not only pointed out several glaring errors, but also helped us to tighten the arguments.? 1993 by The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the editors of The Journal of Interdisciplinary History.

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Section: Industrial Capitalism and The Second Upswing Of Patriarchymentioning

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Economy and English Families, 1500-1850

Quinlan¹,

Shackelford²

1994

Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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“…This paper sheds light some light on one mechanism through which this might have been the case. 3 Surveys of this view are provided by Coleman (1956); Hill (1964); Appleby (1976); Blanchard (1978); Rule (1981); Himmelfarb (1984); Hatcher (1998). order to encourage the poor to work more (Appleby, 1976, 513). According to this view the high wages, identified by Allen (2009) as characteristic of the English economy, were a source of economic weakness, not strength.…”

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The transformation of labor supply in the pre-industrial world

Koyama

2012

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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“…In a time when "sheep ate men," to use Marx's apt expression, enclosing landlords evicted the unfortunate peasants and cottagers whose tenures in land were insecure. For these poor, the new economy dictated a term of unemployment (seasonal or yearround) which they served out as squatters in the country forest or adrift among London's teeming masses (the city was approaching 120,000 by 1575) (Coleman 1956;Stone 1966).…”

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Pioneers of Providence: The Anglo-American Experience, 1492–1792

Earle

1992

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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The English colonization of North America has always seemed providential for the legatees of that process, and for good reason. Awakened at last to the potentialities of the New World by the profits of privateering and emboldened by the daring actions of Elizabeth and Francis Drake, the English shook off their profound disinterest in the Americas and embarked on a colonial venture of immense and improbable proportion. During the ensuing two centuries, they entered into the imperial scramble for the New World; established hegemony over the Atlantic Seaboard of North America; implanted (not always wittingly) a profuse variety of sturdy regional societies and economies committed more or less to ethnocultural pluralism, capitalist institutions, and exponential demographic and economic growth; and, i n the end, capitulated to the colonies' revolutionary insistence on independence from the Crown. When, soon after, the new nation was propelled forward by an indus-I trial revolution, her citizens were prepared to believe that indeed they were pioneers of providenceall of which has been of small comfort to their less fortunate co-colonials around the globe.

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Labour in the English Economy of the Seventeenth Century

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Economy and English Families, 1500-1850

Economy and English Families, 1500-1850

The transformation of labor supply in the pre-industrial world

Pioneers of Providence: The Anglo-American Experience, 1492–1792

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