Real Contracts and Mistaken Wages: The Organisation of Work and Pay in London Building Trades 1650-1800

The French economy in the longue durée: a study on real wages, working days and economic performance from Louis IX to the Revolution (1250–1789)

“…Total duration of the construction work increases instead the likelihood of being employed in a certain week. The fact that workers employed in relatively large construction sites that did last long experienced higher degree of labour mobility is consistent with the characterization of the patterns of casual employment in large-scale enterprises provided by Salzman (1952) and Stephenson (2016). We observe a significant positive effect of calendar working days on the participation process.…”

CONSUMPTION AND LIVING STANDARDS IN BUENOS AIRES. CONSUMER BASKETS AND INCOME BETWEEN THE LATE COLONIAL AGE AND THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY

“… 3 Even in Great Britain, the cradle of Allen's works, researchers are now debating some of the basic parameters required for the construction of the basket and its comparison with salaries (Humphries and Weisdorf 2016; Stephenson 2016). …”

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

“…36 Stephenson refers to Voth to question the assumption of constant working hours underlying Allen's claim of high wages in late-eighteenth-century Britain. 37 Allen, defending the claim of high wages, adopts Voth's estimates of a five-day working week and eleven-hour working day in calculating the weekly output of cotton weavers. 38 Allen and Weisdorf use Voth's estimates as benchmarks against which they compare the number of days' work that they estimate to have been needed to buy a certain basket of commodities in order to test the industrious revolution thesis.…”