Labourers at the Oakes : Changes in the Demand for Female Day-Labourers at a Farm near Sheffield during the Agricultural Revolution
(1999) In Journal of Economic History 59(1). p.41-67- Abstract
- The wage book of a Derbyshire farm, which includes payments to laborers for 1772 to 1775 and 1831 to 1845, allows me to examine the employment patterns of male and female day-laborers at this farm before and after important innovations in agriculture. I find a fall in relative female employment which appears to be due to a fall in demand. Male employment shifted to the spring, but female employment maintained the same seasonal pattern. These seasonal and sexual shifts in the demand for labor probably resulted from the changes in animal husbandry that followed enclosure.
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- author
- Burnette, Joyce LU
- publishing date
- 1999
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- employment, women, working women, wages, workforce, agriculture, labor demand, farms, industrial agriculture, crops
- in
- Journal of Economic History
- volume
- 59
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 27 pages
- publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- external identifiers
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- scopus:0033061094
- ISSN
- 0022-0507
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
- 9e66157b-8440-4325-900c-a7f222c1d8e3
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- http://www.jstor.org/stable/2566496
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