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" Women, work and wages in England, 1600-1850 / "
edited by Penelope Lane, Neil Raven and K.D.M. Snell
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BL
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693542
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b515731
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| Title & Author
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Women, work and wages in England, 1600-1850 /\ edited by Penelope Lane, Neil Raven and K.D.M. Snell
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| Publication Statement
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ;Rochester, NY :: Boydell Press,, 2004
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xi, 239 p. :: ill. ;; 25 cm
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1843830779 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-232) and index
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| Contents
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Introduction / Jane Humphries and K.D.M. Snell -- 'Waste' children? pauper apprenticeship under the Elizabethan poor laws, c.1598-1697 / Steve Hindle -- Gender at sea: women and the East India Company in seventeenth-century London / Pamela Sharpe -- Sickles and scythes revisited: harvest work, wages and symbolic meanings / Michael Roberts -- A customary or market wage? women and work in the East Midlands, c. 1700-1840 / Penelope Lane -- 'Meer pennies for my baskitt will be enough': women, work and welfare, 1770-1830 / Steven King -- Caring for the sick poor: poor law nurses in Bedfordshire, c. 1770-1834 / Samantha Williams -- 'A humbler, industrious class of female': women's employment and industry in the small towns of southern England, c. 1790-1840 / Neil Raven -- A diminishing force? reassessing the employment of female day labourers in English agriculture, c. 1790-1850 / Nicola Verdon
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Sex role-- England-- History
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Women-- Employment-- England-- History
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Women-- England-- Economic conditions
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Women-- England-- Social conditions
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| Dewey Classification
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331.4/0942/0903
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HD6136.W668 2004
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Lane, Penelope
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Raven, Neil,1967-
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Snell, K. D. M
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