Looking for work or looking for workers? Days and hours of work in London construction in the eighteenth century
Abstract:
This paper provides new information and data on how work and pay actually operated for skilled and semi-skilled men on large London construction projects, and for the first time, offers detailed firm level evidence on the number of days per year worked by men. The results indicate that construction workers’ working hours and days were bounded by structural factors in both supply and demand, and that men worked a far lower number of days than has been assumed until now.
Date: 30 January 2018, 17:00 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Hilary 2018)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Large Lecture Room
Speaker: Judy Stephenson (University of Oxford)
Organising department: Department of Economics
Part of: Economic and Social History Seminar
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editors: Erin Saunders, Anne Pouliquen