Overview
- Highlights a new wage series for builders and labourers that changes existing views of London as a ‘high wage economy’
- Provides new research on business organisation and contracting in the early modern period
- Offers new information on working practices that challenge traditional notions of artisan production
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)
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This book presents a new economic history of London construction in the early modern period. Drawing on extensive archival material from key sites such as St Paul’s Cathedral and London Bridge, it describes the organization of contracts and work on large-scale ‘extraordinary’ projects and maintenance contracts in the city during a key period of architectural and organizational development in Britain. Stephenson shows that the organisation of the industry and the welfare of its workers were shaped by the contracts and finance of large institutions and ambitious businessmen. Providing fresh wage and earnings data for craftsmen and labourers during the period, it offers new material and debate for economic, business and construction historians.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Judy Z. Stephenson is Fellow of Wadham College Oxford, UK, and an economic historian of labour markets, organisations and employment in early modern England. She has worked with the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, UK, and was formerly an Economic History Society Tawney Fellow.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contracts and Pay
Book Subtitle: Work in London Construction 1660–1785
Authors: Judy Z. Stephenson
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57508-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57507-0Published: 08 March 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57508-7Published: 07 March 2020
Series ISSN: 2662-6497
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 261
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, Labor Economics, Urban Economics, Architectural History and Theory, Labor History, Urban History