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SUMMARY:A New History of Work in Early Modern England: Gender\, Tasks and 
 Occupations - Jane Whittle (Exeter)
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CONTACT:Martin Andersson
DESCRIPTION:Since 2015 Mark Hailwood and I have been collaborating on a pr
 oject\, funded first by the Leverhulme Trust and then by the European Rese
 arch Council\, that collects evidence of work tasks from the court documen
 ts of early modern England\, developing a methodology which has many simil
 arities to modern time-use studies. The work task database is now complete
  and contains records of 9650 tasks and the people who undertook them from
  south-west\, northern and east-central England between 1500-1700. In this
  paper I focus how this approach to the history of work challenges existin
 g ideas about the early modern economy and its development over time. In d
 oing so\, I argue for a more inclusive definition of work\, and explore th
 e implications of our findings for two areas in particular\, women’s wor
 k and changing occupational structures. The findings demonstrate the invol
 vement of women in all areas of the economy and prompt a re-evaluation of 
 the history of housework and care-work. The range of tasks undertaken by m
 en with different occupational titles is analysed\, demonstrating the degr
 ee to which those with non-agricultural occupations remained involved in a
 gricultural work\, as well as combining crafts\, commerce\, and transport.
  Overall\, our results show very little change over time at the level of t
 he work task\, which suggests a new perspective for characterising preindu
 strial economic development.
LOCATION:History Faculty\, Room 6
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