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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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The reconstruction of the supply side of the labour market: the relative autonomy of social reproduction

Jane Humphries, +1 more
- 01 Dec 1984 - 
TL;DR: The authors examine the main approaches to the analysis of social reproduc tion, using the position of women in the system of production and reproduction as the main example of existing work on social reproduction.
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Protective Legislation, the Capitalist State, and Working Class Men: The Case of the 1842 Mines Regulation Act:

Jane Humphries
- 01 Mar 1981 - 
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Baricitinib in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial and updated meta-analysis

Obbina Abani, +7885 more
- 03 Mar 2022 - 
TL;DR: In patients hospitalised with COVID-19, baricitinib significantly reduced the risk of death but the size of benefit was somewhat smaller than that suggested by previous trials.
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Unreal Wages? Real Income and Economic Growth in England, 1260-1850

Jane Humphries, +3 more
- 01 Apr 2017 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors circumvent the problem by building an income series of workers employed on annual rather than casual contracts, which suggests that existing annual income estimates based on day wages are badly off target, because they overestimate the medieval working year but underestimate the working year during the industrial revolution.
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The Wages of Women in England, 1260–1850

Jane Humphries, +1 more
- 01 Jun 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.