Wages at the wheel: were spinners part of the high wage economy?
In our earlier paper we used archival and printed primary sources to construct the first long-run series of wages for hand spinning in early modern Britain. Our evidence challenged Robert Allen's claim that spinners were part of the 'High Wage Economy', which he sees as motivating inv...
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University of Oxford
2019
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