Showing papers by "Jane Humphries published in 2015"
TL;DR: The authors presented 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, and found that 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.
Abstract: 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.”
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TL;DR: In this article, the author's accepted manuscript is available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ehr.12084/abstract.
Abstract: This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final version is available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ehr.12084/abstract.
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TL;DR: Thomas Piketty's large book deserves its mass readership and its many accolades as mentioned in this paper, and it is the most important economics book of the year and probably of the decade.
Abstract: Thomas Piketty's large book deserves its mass readership and its many accolades. It is the most important economics book of the year and probably of the decade.It provides a substantive account of ...
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