Jane Humphries

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of industrialization on children's work were investigated using a data set of household budgets and they found that in early industrialization the number of children working and the number working in factories both increased, while the age at which children started work decreased.

TL;DR: The authors showed that the trough in women's labor force participation is in part statistically manufactured by uncritical reliance on official sources that systematically undercount women workers and exploited nonstandard sources to construct alternative estimates of women's participation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the household accounts of 1,350 husband-wife families to investigate trends in male earnings and family incomes and found that family incomes grew less than male earnings, while occupational and regional distinctions, discontinuities in the growth process and changes over time in the ability of other family members to offset the effects of the business cycle on men's earnings.

TL;DR: The authors presented a wage series for unskilled English women workers from 1260 to 1850 and compared it with existing evidence for men, revealing an intractable, indeed widening gap between women and men’s remuneration in the centuries following the Black Death.

TL;DR: The male breadwinner family has been identified as a watershed in many otherwise very different histories of the family as mentioned in this paper and it looms large in both orthodox economic analyses of historical trends in female participation rates and feminist depictions of a symbiotic structural relationship between inherited patriarchal relationships and nascent industrial capitalism.