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Jane Humphries
Researcher at London School of Economics and Political Science
Publications - 121
Citations - 4420
Jane Humphries is an academic researcher from London School of Economics and Political Science. The author has contributed to research in topics: Child labour & Wage. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 116 publications receiving 4065 citations. Previous affiliations of Jane Humphries include University of Massachusetts Amherst & University of Delhi.
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Marjatta Rahikainen, Centuries of Child Labour: European Experiences from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century , Aldershot, Hampshire, Ashgate. ix + 272. £45. 0 7546 0498 5
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Gender Inequality and Economic Development
TL;DR: This paper found that women's economic usefulness was seen as a key determinant of their relative status and well-being and that there may be only a weak correspondence between women's relative wellbeing and economic development.
Women and paid work
TL;DR: A miner's wife reported that she made flannel shirts at 7d apiece and paid for black lead and mustard by any little job she could get, obtained salt in exchange for the bones left from their meat, and took in a lodger as mentioned in this paper.