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In Search of the Average Craftsman: Understanding Skilled Work and Wages in the Early Modern Building Trades and Wider Economy

In: Seven Centuries of Unreal Wages

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  • Judy Z. Stephenson

    (Wadham College, University of Oxford)

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The figures from London building accounts 1650–1800 that have been collected as ‘wages’ are no such thing. This chapter describes how skill and pay really worked in the London construction industry and asks whether Bowley’s assumptions about building craftsmen and the average worker can be upheld.

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  • Judy Z. Stephenson, 2018. "In Search of the Average Craftsman: Understanding Skilled Work and Wages in the Early Modern Building Trades and Wider Economy," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: John Hatcher & Judy Z. Stephenson (ed.), Seven Centuries of Unreal Wages, chapter 5, pages 117-141, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-319-96962-6_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-96962-6_5
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    1. Mario García‐Zúñiga & Ernesto LóPEZ LOSA, 2021. "Skills and human capital in eighteenth‐century Spain: wages and working lives in the construction of the Royal Palace of Madrid (1737–1805)†," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 74(3), pages 691-720, August.

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