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SUMMARY:Tamlaght 1840: Work\, gender and production in a proto-industrial 
 community - Paul Warde\, Cambridge
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CONTACT:Amy Erickson
DESCRIPTION:This paper examines a simple question: what did people actuall
 y do in the pre-industrial economy? Many of the indicators used in assessi
 ng economic development\, and understanding the economic choices available
  to households and individuals\, rely on information about working days\, 
 types of labour\, and earning opportunities. This information is often sca
 rce\, or must be inferred from outside commentators\, or simply assumed. T
 he paper uses a (possibly) unique survey taking in the northern Irish pari
 sh of Tamlaght in 1840\, which gives an almost complete record of the econ
 omic resources available to hundreds of households\, and highly unusually\
 , detailed information on work by season. This allows a detailed breakdown
  of the labour input from men and women into specific tasks\, and an under
 standing of productivity and returns. In turn\, the information provides i
 nsight into the state of Irish rural society on the eve of the Great Famin
 e\, arguing that the circumstances of many surviving from small potato plo
 ts was a rational response to the pressures on the proto-industrial econom
 y caused by mechanization.
LOCATION:Room 6\, Faculty of History
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