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SUMMARY:Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It's not (all) abou
 t the money - Jordan Claridge\, LSE
DTSTART:20231026T161500Z
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DESCRIPTION:For long periods of history\, a significant proportion of the 
 labour force has received all or part of their wages in non-monetary in-ki
 nd payments. Despite its historical ubiquity\, this form of labour remuner
 ation remains poorly understood. This paper presents a framework which all
 ows for the valuation and interpretation of in-kind wages. We apply our me
 thod to a new dataset of agricultural wages for labourers in medieval Engl
 and (1270-1430)\, most of whom received a composite wage for which in-kind
  payment was the largest share. Assessing the market value of the wages th
 ese workers received\, we find an increase in the relative importance of c
 ash payments in the latter decades of the fourteenth century. We show that
  this was connected to a fundamental shift in labour relations\, providing
  new empirical insights into the so-called `golden age of labour’ that f
 ollowed the Black Death.
LOCATION:Room 6\, Faculty of History
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