Enclosures, Common Rights, and Women: The Proletarianization of Families in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
TL;DR: This paper argued that women and children were the primary exploiters of common rights and their loss led to changes in women's economic position within the family and more generally to increased dependence of whole families on wages and wage earners.
Abstract: This article argues against the mainstream view that eighteenth-century common rights were of little significance to working people. Markets in common rights and in their products provide an index of value, and when neither common rights nor derived products were bought and sold, values are imputed from the market prices of similar goods. Since women and children were the primary exploiters of common rights, their loss led to changes in women's economic position within the family and more generally to increased dependence of whole families on wages and wage earners.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a typology of participation, spells out the gender equity and efficiency implications of such exclusions, and analyzes what underlies them, and outlines a conceptual framework to help analyze the process of gender exclusion and how it might be alleviated.
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TL;DR: O'Rourke et al. as mentioned in this paper discussed the UK's economic growth during the long twentieth century and highlighted the role of the public sector in the UK economy during the deindustrial revolution, 1870-2010.
Abstract: 1. Economic growth during the long twentieth century Nicholas Crafts 2. From empire to Europe: Britain in the world economy Kevin O'Rourke 3. Population, migration and labour supply Tim Hatton 4. Health and welfare Bernard Harris 5. Income and living standards Ian Gazeley 6. Technology, innovation and economic growth Tom Nicholas 7. Consumption and affluence Avner Offer 8. Cycles and depressions Matthias Morys 9. The City and the corporate economy David Chambers 10. Armaments and the economy Jari Eloranta 11. The deindustrial revolution: the rise and fall of UK manufacturing, 1870-2010 Michael Kitson and Jonathan Michie 12. The rise of the service sector Steve Broadberry 13. The household economy Peter Scott 14. Growth of the public sector Bob Millward 15. Soft power: the media industries Gerben Bakker 16. Sterling and monetary policy Catherine Schenk 17. Economic policy and management Roger Middleton 18. Economic ideas and ideology Roger Backhouse and Keith Tribe.
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TL;DR: A second Industrious Revolution? Appendix I.1. The transformation of consumer desire in the long eighteenth century 2. The origins of the Industrious revolution 3. The Industrial Revolution: the supply of labor 4. The industrial revolution: consumer demand 5. The breadwinner-homemaker household 6.
Abstract: 1. The transformation of consumer desire in the long eighteenth century 2. The origins of the Industrious Revolution 3. The Industrious Revolution: the supply of labor 4. The Industrious Revolution: consumer demand 5. The breadwinner-homemaker household 6. A second Industrious Revolution? Appendix I.
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TL;DR: Fifty years since first publication, E P Thompson's revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals is published in Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by historian Michael Kenny as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Fifty years since first publication, E P Thompson's revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals is published in Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by historian Michael Kenny This classic and imaginative account of working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, revolutionized our understanding of English social history E P Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole-life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation, and who yet created a cultured and political consciousness of great vitality Reviews: "A dazzling vindication of the lives and aspirations of the then - and now once again - neglected culture of working-class England" (Martin Kettle, Observer) "Superbly readable a moving account of the culture of the self-taught in an age of social and intellectual deprivation" (Asa Briggs, Financial Times) "Thompson's work combines passion and intellect, the gifts of the poet, the narrator and the analyst" (E J Hobsbawm, Independent) "An event not merely in the writing of English history but in the politics of our century" (Michael Foot, Times Literary Supplement) "The greatest of our socialist historians" (Terry Eagleton, New Statesman) About the author: E P Thompson was born in 1924 and read history at Corpus Christi, Cambridge, graduating in 1946 An academic, writer and acclaimed historian, his first major work was a biography of William Morris The Making of the English Working Class was instantly recognized as a classic on its publication in 1963 and secured his position as one of the leading social historians of his time Thompson was also an active campaigner and key figure in the ending of the Cold War He died in 1993, survived by his wife and two sons
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01 Jan 1981
TL;DR: An economic history of Britain since 1700, in three volumes by 39 eminent historians and economists, is described in this article, which will appeal particularly to first and second year university students but is also suitable for anyone interested in the history of the British economy.
Abstract: An economic history of Britain since 1700, in three volumes by 39 eminent historians and economists. It will appeal particularly to first and second year university students, but is also suitable for anyone interested in the history of the British economy.
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