Title: Men at work
First published: 1995
Description: This study redresses the north and south imbalance of much work on economic and social history by focusing on the lives and economic impact of the building trade in the early-modern period in the context of the change from rural economy to the eve of industrialisation.

The period 1450-1750 witnessed substantial changes in England: in the size of national population; the range of industry practised; the commodity structure and patterns of overseas trade; in agricultural techniques; and in the proportion of population tied to the soil. The evidence analysed in this book uses the nature of building and labouring work to consider the variations in wages and living standards allied to studies of individual towns.

Using many hitherto unworked sources from local archives, the author addresses conditions of work in the building trades, levels of remuneration, the characteristics of the life-cycles of male and female workers, gender differences in work, and relationships with employers - at times running counter to the prevailing orthodoxies.
Subjects: History, Building trades, Construction workers, Wages, Construction industry, Cities and towns, Cost and standard of living, Economic conditions, Social conditions, Employees, Population, Kentler ve kasabalar, Yas ʹam standard♯ł ve maliyeti, I s ʹc ʹiler, Sosyal durum, Tarih, U cretler, Yap♯ł ticareti, Nu fus, Yap♯ł endu strisi, Yap♯ł c ʹal♯łs ʹanlar♯ł, Ekonomik durum, Construction workers, great britain, Wages, great britain, Cost and standard of living, great britain, Great britain, economic conditions, Great britain, social conditions, Construction industry, great britain
Places: Northern England
LC classification: HD8039.B92 G78 1995