The port of Newcastle upon Tyne in north-east England was transformed in the seventeenth century by the rapid expansion of its coal trade, which demanded an influx of industrial transport workers known as ‘keelmen’. This article assesses wages, perks and the seasonal distribution of income for this growing group of workers, estimating that their real income rose until about 1680, before tailing off again. They were comparatively well paid, but their work was inconsistent and seasonal. The number of days' work available was crucial to welfare in Newcastle, as were a series of formal and informal measures intended to relieve winter poverty and maintain a year-round workforce. Combining quantitative and qualitative evidence, this article offer...
wage and price data, some of whom are listed in the appendix. This paper would have been impossible ...
One of the most common myths in European economic history, and indeed in Economics itself, is that t...
The author reflects upon regional economic change and the ways in which this is conceptualised and u...
This article explores aspects of employment on the Durham Priory estates in the years 1494-1519. Fro...
The economic and social condition of England on the eve of the industrial revolution, with special r...
Abstract This article tries to assess the environmental impact of the First Industrial Revolution in...
Phd ThesisThe subject of this study is not quite as disjointed as its title suggests. It was though...
Cet article cherche à mettre en évidence le rôle des artistes visuels dans la représentation des mut...
This article explores how far estate management and institutional constraints help to explain the tr...
This article shows that three elements conflated in England from 1650 to 1750: a significant growth ...
The fifteenth century was not marked by an epochmaking catastrophe, like the one which preceded it,...
In the early eighteenth century Sheffield was a modest industrial town with an established reputatio...
Textile historians have not unnaturally focused on the regions and periods of most dramatic change—F...
The literature on nineteenth-century Newcastle city region is a narrative of industrial progress pre...
Estimates of historical workers' annual incomes suffer from the fundamental problem that they are in...
wage and price data, some of whom are listed in the appendix. This paper would have been impossible ...
One of the most common myths in European economic history, and indeed in Economics itself, is that t...
The author reflects upon regional economic change and the ways in which this is conceptualised and u...
This article explores aspects of employment on the Durham Priory estates in the years 1494-1519. Fro...
The economic and social condition of England on the eve of the industrial revolution, with special r...
Abstract This article tries to assess the environmental impact of the First Industrial Revolution in...
Phd ThesisThe subject of this study is not quite as disjointed as its title suggests. It was though...
Cet article cherche à mettre en évidence le rôle des artistes visuels dans la représentation des mut...
This article explores how far estate management and institutional constraints help to explain the tr...
This article shows that three elements conflated in England from 1650 to 1750: a significant growth ...
The fifteenth century was not marked by an epochmaking catastrophe, like the one which preceded it,...
In the early eighteenth century Sheffield was a modest industrial town with an established reputatio...
Textile historians have not unnaturally focused on the regions and periods of most dramatic change—F...
The literature on nineteenth-century Newcastle city region is a narrative of industrial progress pre...
Estimates of historical workers' annual incomes suffer from the fundamental problem that they are in...
wage and price data, some of whom are listed in the appendix. This paper would have been impossible ...
One of the most common myths in European economic history, and indeed in Economics itself, is that t...
The author reflects upon regional economic change and the ways in which this is conceptualised and u...