Did Joseph Arch raise agricultural wages?: rural trade unions and the labour market in late nineteenth-century England

Boyer, George R.; Hatton, Timothy J.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0289.1994.tb01378.x

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“…62 Locally farmers increasingly sought to retain male farm workers and wages rose. 63 Through the Philanthropic networks they might have learned of the fraternal associations for their labourers, notably the trade union and the friendly societies. The number of casual labouring women and children fell.…”

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Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain

Burnette¹

2008

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A major study of the role of women in the labour market of Industrial Revolution Britain. It is well known that men and women usually worked in different occupations, and that women earned lower wages than men. These differences are usually attributed to custom but Joyce Burnette here demonstrates instead that gender differences in occupations and wages were instead largely driven by market forces. Her findings reveal that rather than harming women competition actually helped them by eroding the power that male workers needed to restrict female employment and minimising the gender wage gap by sorting women into the least strength-intensive occupations. Where the strength requirements of an occupation made women less productive than men, occupational segregation maximised both economic efficiency and female incomes. She shows that women's wages were then market wages rather than customary and the gender wage gap resulted from actual differences in productivity.

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The Origins and Early Impact of the Minimum Wage in Agriculture

Gowers

Hatton

1997

The Economic History Review

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This article examines the effects on wages and employment of the minimum wage in agriculture during the interwar period. It finds that the impact of regulation was to raise the wage for agricultural labourers by 13 per cent when it was (re)introduced in 1924, by 15 per cent in the late 1920s, and by more than 20 per cent in the 1930s. The effect on farm employment was to reduce it by about 54,000 (6.5 per cent) in 1929 up to a peak of 97,000 (13.3 per cent) in 1937. The minimum wage lifted out of poverty many families of farm labourers who remained employed, but it significantly lowered the incomes of farmers, particularly during the 1930s.

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Did Joseph Arch raise agricultural wages?: rural trade unions and the labour market in late nineteenth-century England

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Fraternal Networks Of Victorian Norfolk

Fraternal Networks Of Victorian Norfolk

Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain

The Origins and Early Impact of the Minimum Wage in Agriculture

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