Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction
Chapter 1. The wage in Europe since the sixteenth century Peter Scholliers and Leonard Schwarz
Custom, Wages and the Market
Chapter 2. Institutional and cultural change in wage formation: port labour in Antwerp (sixteenth – eighteenth centuries) Harald Deceulaer
Chapter 3. When labour hires capital: evidence from Lancashire, 1870–1914 Michael Huberman
Chapter 4. Giving notice: the legitimate way of quitting and firing (Ghent, 1877–1896) Patricia Van den Eeckhout
Changing Pay Systems and Wage Forms
Chapter 5. Wage forms, wage systems and wage conflicts in German crafts during the eighteenth and earlier nineteenth centuries Reinhold Reith
Chapter 6. Wage forms, pay systems and labour control in nineteenth-century agriculture. Evidence from the Dutch province of Groningen Henny Gooren and Hans Heger
Chapter 7. Cash, wages and the economy of makeshifts in England, 1650–1800 Craig Muldrew and Steven King
Age, Gender and Wages
Chapter 8. Gendered wage systems and industrialisation in Finland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Sakari Heikkinen
Chapter 9. Engendering the experience of wages: the evolution of the piecework system at the Spanish Tobacco Monopoly, 1800–1930s Lina Gálvez-Muñoz
Chapter 10. Age, gender and the wage in Britain, 1830–1930 Paul Johnson
Chapter 11. At what cost was pre-eminence purchased? Child labour and the first industrial revolution Jane Humphries
Notes on Contributors Index
