Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Waste’ Children? Pauper Apprenticeship Under the Elizabethan Poor Laws, c. 1598–1697
- 2 Gender at Sea: Women and the East India Company in Seventeenth-Century London
- 3 Sickles and Scythes Revisited: Harvest Work, Wages and Symbolic Meanings
- 4 A Customary or Market Wage? Women and Work in the East Midlands, c. 1700–1840
- 5 ‘Meer Pennies for My Baskitt Will be Enough’: Women, Work and Welfare, 1770–1830
- 6 Caring for the Sick Poor: Poor Law Nurses in Bedfordshire, c. 1770–1834
- 7 ‘A ‘Humbler, Industrious Class of Female’: Women’s Employment and Industry in the Small Towns of Southern England, c. 1790–1840
- 8 A Diminishing Force? Reassessing the Employment of Female Day Labourers in English Agriculture, c. 1790–1850
- Bibliography
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Waste’ Children? Pauper Apprenticeship Under the Elizabethan Poor Laws, c. 1598–1697
- 2 Gender at Sea: Women and the East India Company in Seventeenth-Century London
- 3 Sickles and Scythes Revisited: Harvest Work, Wages and Symbolic Meanings
- 4 A Customary or Market Wage? Women and Work in the East Midlands, c. 1700–1840
- 5 ‘Meer Pennies for My Baskitt Will be Enough’: Women, Work and Welfare, 1770–1830
- 6 Caring for the Sick Poor: Poor Law Nurses in Bedfordshire, c. 1770–1834
- 7 ‘A ‘Humbler, Industrious Class of Female’: Women’s Employment and Industry in the Small Towns of Southern England, c. 1790–1840
- 8 A Diminishing Force? Reassessing the Employment of Female Day Labourers in English Agriculture, c. 1790–1850
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Type
- Chapter
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- Women, Work and Wages in England, 1600-1850 , pp. 233 - 240Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2004