Looking for work? Or looking for workers? Days and hours of work in London construction in the eighteenth century

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 in the early 1700s, and for the first time, offers detailed firm level evidence on the number of days per year worked by men. Construction workers...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stephenson, J
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2018