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Labourers at the Oakes: Changes in the Demand for Female Day-Laborers at a Farm near Sheffield During the Agricultural Revolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Joyce Burnette
Joyce Burnette
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Joyce Burnette is Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN 47933.
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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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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 59 , Issue 1 , March 1999 , pp. 41 - 67
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1999

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