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Gender, work and wages in industrial revolution Britain

Joyce Burnette
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In this paper, the authors investigate occupational barriers to women's employment in agriculture and self-employment, and find that women's labour force participation is lower than that of men in agriculture.
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Introduction 1. Women's occupations 2. Women's wages 3. Explaining occupational sorting 4. Testing for occupational barriers in agriculture 5. Barriers to women's employment 6. Occupational barriers in self-employment 7. Women's labour force participation 8. Conclusion Appendixes.

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Does the European Marriage Pattern Explain Economic Growth

Tracy Dennison, +1 more
- 01 Sep 2014 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors scrutinized the recently postulated link between the European Marriage Pattern (EMP) and economic success and found that there is no evidence that the EMP improved economic performance by empowering women, increasing human capital, adjusting population to economic trends, or sustaining beneficial cultural norms.
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The Wages of Women in England, 1260-1850

Jane Humphries, +1 more
- 01 Mar 2014 - 
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.
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The Relative Productivity Hypothesis of Industrialization: The American Case, 1820 to 1850

Claudia Goldin, +1 more
- 01 Oct 1981 - 
TL;DR: The American Northeast industrialized rapidly from about 1820 to 1850, while the South remained agricultural as discussed by the authors, and the wages of females and children relative to those of adult men increased greatly from levels in the agricultural sector which were previously quite low.
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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.
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Before the Great Divergence? Comparing the Yangzi Delta and the Netherlands at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

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- 01 Dec 2012 - 
TL;DR: The authors compared the long-term economic development of China compared with Europe on the basis of a detailed comparison of structure and level of GDP in part of the Yangzi delta and the Netherlands in the 1820s.
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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.
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