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SUMMARY:The Gendered Dynamics of Violence in English Apprenticeship: Petit
 ions to the Westminster and Middlesex Sessions\, c. 1690-1830 - Hillary Ta
 ylor (University of Padua)
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DESCRIPTION:This paper aims to offer the first systematic analysis of the 
 role that violence played in the management of apprentices\, and the gende
 red dynamics of violence in English apprenticeship more broadly. Based on 
 an examination of over 500 surviving petitions that apprentices or their s
 upporters submitted to the Westminster and Middlesex sessions\, it examine
 s the proportion of that featured allegations of violence\; the terms and 
 level of detail in which violence was described\; and violence’s relatio
 nship to apprentices’ other stated grievances. It moves on to reconstruc
 t the factors that could prompt masters and mistresses to mete out correct
 ion (as well as their commentaries on their perceived right to do so) and 
 the tactics that petitioners used in crafting their complaints to legal au
 thorities. Although female apprentices complained about violence at a disp
 roportionate rate to their male peers\, this paper suggests that their pet
 itions did so in comparatively formulaic and restricted terms. It consider
 s what implications this might have for both our understandings of violenc
 e\, gender\, and apprenticeship\, and a genre of document — the petition
  — that provides access to these issues.
LOCATION:DD48\, Queens’ College
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