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SUMMARY:St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar - Professor Jane Humphrie
 s - ‘Careworn: Towards an economic history of caring work’ - Professor
  Jane Humphries
DTSTART:20231127T180000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Date: Monday\, 27 November 2023\nTime: 18:00 -19:30\nSpeaker: 
 Professor Jane Humphries\nTalk Title: ‘Careworn: Towards an economic his
 tory of caring work’\nLocation:  Ramsden Room\, St Catharine's College\
 n\nThe next St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar will be held on Monda
 y\,27 November 2023. Professor Jane Humphries will give a talk on "Carewor
 n: Towards an economic history of caring work". The seminar will beheld in
  the Ramsden Room at St Catharine's College from 6.00-7.30 pm. All are wel
 come. The seminar series is supported by the Cambridge Journal of Economic
 s and the Economics and Policy Group at the Cambridge Judge Business Schoo
 l. Speaker Biog: Jane Humphries is Emeritus Professor of Economic History
  and Fellow of All Souls College at the University of Oxford\, and a Cente
 nnial Chair in the Department of Economic History at the London School of 
 Economics.\nHer interests include labour markets\, industrialisation and t
 he links between the family and the economy. She has published extensively
  on gender\, the family and the history of women's work\, and is also inte
 rested in the causes and consequences of economic growth and structural ch
 ange. Her 2010book\, Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial
  Revolution drew on a large number of autobiographies by working men and 
 used an innovative quantitative and qualitative methodology to illuminate 
 aspects of children's lives which are inaccessible on the basis of more co
 nventional sources. The sources were also used to quantify the formation o
 f human capital and children's economic contributions during industrial tr
 ansformation using a model of a labour market with child labour. The monog
 raph was awarded the Gyorgi Ranki Prize for an outstanding book in Europea
 n Economic History by the Economic History Association in 2011 and provide
 d the basis for a successful BBC4 documentary\, The Children Who Built 
 Victorian Britain\, which she co-wrote and presented.\nhttps://www.oxfordm
 artin.ox.ac.uk/people/jane-humphries/
LOCATION:The Ramsden Room\, St Catharine's College
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