Women and wage labour in rural Flanders in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
This article addresses women's participation and remuneration in the agricultural labour market in coastal Flanders during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. An analysis of unique and unexplored late medieval farm accounts demonstrates that women's employment opportunities in this dynamic and commercial region had diminished by the middle of the sixteenth century. This article argues that demographic developments, which are usually considered to be the drivers of change in the debate about female wage labour in the centuries after the Black Death, cannot adequately explain the observed cha... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | journalarticle |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2019 |
Schlagwörter: | Agriculture and Food Sciences / History and Archaeology / FEMALE DAY-LABORERS / ENGLISH AGRICULTURE / MARKET / FARM |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27086492 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8619224 |