Judy Z. Stephenson

Contracts and Pay (eBook, PDF)

Work in London Construction 1660-1785

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Highlights a new wage series for builders and labourers that changes existing views of London as a 'high wage economy' Provides new research on business organisation and contracting in the early modern period Offers new information on working practices that challenge traditional notions of artisan production

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 261
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319575087
• Artikelnr.: 59879868

Autorenporträt

Judy Z. Stephenson is Fellow of Wadham College Oxford, UK, and an economic historian of labour markets, organisations and employment in early modern England. She has worked with the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, UK, and was formerly an Economic History Society Tawney Fellow.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: A short history of builder's wages in Economic History.- Chapter 2: The market for building.- Chapter 3: Contractors.- Chapter 4: Contracts and ways of working in the building trades.- Chapter 5: What did bosses (in London construction) do?.- Chapter 6: Contracts and Pay at St. Paul's Cathedral.- Chapter 7: Pay on the Bridges and at Middle Temple.- Chapter 8: Contracts and pay at other sites.- Chapter 9: Conclusions and further notes on understanding Early Modern contracts and pay.