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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vi
4. Notes on contributors vii
5. Acknowledgements xi
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 ‘Waste’ children? Pauper apprenticeship under the Elizabethan poor laws, c. 1598–1697 15
8. 2 Gender at sea: Women and the East India Company in seventeenth-century London 47
9. 3 Sickles and scythes revisited: Harvest work, wages and symbolic meanings 68
10. 4 A customary or market wage? Women and work in the East Midlands, c. 1700–1840 102
11. 5 ‘Meer pennies for my baskitt will be enough’ Women, work and welfare, 1770–1830 119
12. 6 Caring for the sick poor: Poor law nurses in Bedfordshire, c. 1770–1834 141
13. 7 A ‘humbler, industrious class of female’ Women’s employment and industry in the small towns of southern England, c. 1790–1840 170
14. 8 A diminishing force? Reassessing the employment of female day labourers in English agriculture, c. 1790–1850 190
15. Bibliography 212
16. Index 233