Experiencing Wages

by Scholliers, Pieter; Schwarz, Leonard David

• ISBN13: 9781571815460
• ISBN10: 1571815465
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

When discussing wages, historians have traditionally concentrated on the level of wages, much less on how people were paid for their work. Covering a wide geographical area, ranging from Spain to Finland, and time span, ranging from the 16th century to the 1930s, this volume offers fresh perspectives on key areas in social and economic history such as the relationship between customs, moral economy, wages and the market, changing pay and wage forms and the relationship between age, gender and wages.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	vii
Introduction
1. The wage in Europe since the sixteenth century	3	(24)
Peter Scholliers and Leonard Schwarz
Custom, Wages and the Market
2. Institutional and cultural change in wage formation: port labour in Antwerp (sixteenth - eighteenth centuries)	27	(26)
Harald Deceulaer
3. When labour hires capital: evidence from Lancashire, 1870-1914	53	(28)
Michael Huherman
4. Giving notice: the legitiamate way of quitting and firing (Ghent, 1877-1896)	81	(32)
Patricia Van den Eeckhaut
Changing Pay Systems and Wage Forms
5. Wage forms, wage systems and wage conflicts in German crafts during the eighteenth and earlier nineteenth centuries	113	(26)
Reinhold Reith
6. Wage forms, pay systems and labour control in nineteenth-century agriculture. Evidence from the Ditch province of Groningen	139	(16)
Henny Gooren and Haus Heger
7. Cash, wages and the economy of makeshifts in England. 1650-1800	155	(28)
Craig Muldrew and Stephen King
Age, Gender and Wages
8. Gendered wage systems and industrialisation in Finland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries	183	(18)
Sakari Heikkinen
9. Engendering the experience of wages: the evolution of the piecework system at the Spanish Tobacco Monopoly, 1800-1930's	201	(28)
Lina Gálvez-Muñoz
10. Age, gender and the wage in Britain, 1830-1930	229	(22)
Paul Johnson
11. At what cost was preeminence purchased? Child labour and the first industrial revolution	251	(18)
Jane Humphries
Notes on Contributors	269	(4)
Index	273