Mistaken wages: the cost of labour in the early modern English economy, a reply to Robert C. Allen

Stephenson, Judy Z.

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“…229–48). Indeed the relatively tall stature of English labourers, demonstrated here, lends some support to proponents of the view that English diets were fairly generous by international standards in this period (Muldrew 2011 ; Kelly and Ó Gráda 2013 ; Harris et al 2015 ) and is consistent with arguments that England was a ‘high-wage’ economy (Allen 2015 , 2019 ; for contrasting views see Humphries 2013 ; Stephenson 2019 ).…”

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Height and health in late eighteenth-century England

2020

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Adult stature has become a widely used indicator of childhood nutritional status in historical populations and may provide insights into health inequalities that are not discernible in mortality rates. However, most pre-twentieth-century British data on heights suffer from selection biases. Here we present unique evidence on heights of adult males by occupation from an unbiased sample of adult males in Dorset in 1798-99. The mean height of fully grown (married) men was very similar to that of older military recruits, and our sample therefore confirms the taller stature of English males relative to males of other European countries in the same period. In contrast to previous evidence of negligible or U-shaped socioeconomic gradients in mortality in this period, we found a fairly linear gradient in height by socioeconomic status, that is similar in magnitude to class differences in adult height among English males born in the mid-twentieth century.

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Height and health in late eighteenth-century England

2020

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“…17 But if workers worked longer hours per day, a constant daily wage rateas there was in the wage series that Allen uses during the eighteenth centurywould mask a decline in unit labour cost. 18 Since total factor productivity (TFP) consists in the ratio of output (GDP) to all inputs, and labour productivity consists in the ratio of output to labour input, revised estimates of change in labour input can have large implications for labour productivity and TFP, just as Crafts and Harley's revised estimates of output growth did. 19 For instance, while Crafts and Harley compute a total factor productivity (TFP) growth rate of 0.1 per cent per annum (p.a.)…”

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Did women have an industrious revolution? Women's time and work in London, 1750–1830

Sheng

2023

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This article firstly advances a methodological critique of Hans-Joachim Voth's influential study of labour input during the English industrial revolution, arguing that Voth's ingenious and potentially widely applicable method of inferring time-use from court testimony has flaws such that at least the absolute figures yielded are likely unreliable. Secondly, with the method's deficiencies in mind, this article applies a version of it to the Old Bailey court records in order to examine change in women's working time in London between the 1750s and 1830. Results include that women in London did not observe Saint Monday even in the 1750s, and that the time that women in London spent in paid work increased only slightly between the 1750s and 1830.

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“…El texto se divide en cuatro partes claramente diferenciadas. En la Montero, 2011;Humphries, 2013;López Losa, 2013;Andrés y Lanza, 2014González-Mariscal, 2015;Horrell et al, 2015;Humphries y Weisdorf, 2015, 2016de Pleijt y van Zanden, 2016, 2021Calderón et al, 2017;López Losa y Piquero, 2018;Stephenson, 2018Stephenson, , 2019Stephenson, , 2020Humphries y Schneider, 2019a, 2019bPérez Romero, 2019;Rota y J. Weisdorf, 2019;García-Zúñiga, 2020;García-Zúñiga y López Losa, 2021).…”

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Productividad del trabajo, salarios por pieza y beneficios en la manufactura preindustrial. La pañería de Alcoi (1585-1810)

Torró Gil

2023

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El estudio de los salarios en la Europa preindustrial margina las retribuciones por piezas que, paradójicamente, dominaban las actividades manufactureras. La cuestión se aborda analizando a largo plazo los salarios a destajo en la pañería. Este estudio se complementa con información de los precios de los bienes manufacturados y estimaciones de los costes de producción y la productividad del trabajo. Las conclusiones son que los precios de venta dependían más de la evolución del coste de las materias primas que de los salarios, que estos, con un comportamiento anticíclico en términos reales, tendieron a deteriorarse y que esto fue contrarrestado con un incremento de la cantidad de trabajo invertido y de la productividad del trabajo. Los salarios por pieza hicieron de los asalariados los beneficiarios inmediatos del crecimiento de la productividad. Finalmente, la presión salarial en los períodos de intensa inflación erosionó los beneficios, afectando a los cambios de ciclo.

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Mistaken wages: the cost of labour in the early modern English economy, a reply to Robert C. Allen

Cited by 16 publications

References 33 publications

Height and health in late eighteenth-century England

Height and health in late eighteenth-century England

Did women have an industrious revolution? Women's time and work in London, 1750–1830

Productividad del trabajo, salarios por pieza y beneficios en la manufactura preindustrial. La pañería de Alcoi (1585-1810)

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