The Wages of Women in England, 1260-1850

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: University of Oxford; University of Southern Denmark
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050715000662
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 405-447
• 关键词: female day-laborers; late-middle-ages; late-medieval; industrial-revolution; TRANSITION; marriage; servants; service; GENDER; FAMILY

摘要

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 men, informing several debates. Our findings suggest first that women servants 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.