Losing the thread: A response to Robert Allen

In an earlier article we used archival and printed primary sources to construct the first long‐run wage series for hand spinning in early modern Britain. This evidence challenged Robert Allen's claim that spinners were part of the ‘high wage economy’, which he sees as motivating invention, inno...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Humphries, J, Schneider, B
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020