Work in Towns, 850-1850
Details:
- Author(s) Corfield, Penelope J, & Derek Keene (eds)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1990
- Pages 250pp; illus
- Publisher Leicester University Press
- Place Published Leicester
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee & work, women alone
- Name Worker / employee & work, women & men
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Comprises 12 collected essays, having origins as conference papers, on wide ranging aspects of the history of the nature of work in towns / urban economic life over a long period. These aspects include: archaeological evidence; impact of trade; relationship of town and countryside; range and nature of town work; role of women; etc. Includes Michael Roberts, Women and work in sixteenth century English towns' [pp86-102]; Dominic Tweddle, 'Craft and industry in Anglo-Scandinavian York' [pp17-41]; Heather Swanson, 'Artisans in the urban economy - the documentary evidence from York' [pp42-56]