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SUMMARY:Reconsidering recent estimates of the occupational structure of la
 te fourteenth century England - Professor Richard Smith (Cambridge)
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DESCRIPTION:Two recent studies of occupational structure using poll taxes 
 of 1379 and 1380-81 surprisingly conclude that agricultural employment in 
 late fourteenth century England accounted for less than 60 per cent of the
  combined male and female working population. This paper considers systema
 tic links between the degree of evasion\, which was very great between the
  two taxes\, and the occupational distributions and the heavily masculine 
 tax-payer sex ratios. ‘Missing’ males and especially females were disp
 roportionately from the young unmarried section of the population where fe
 male participation rates were likely to have been high in a demographic ph
 ase when male labour shortages prevailed. Estimates of female occupational
  structures are made\, taking account of the occupations of those who evad
 ed and making different assumptions regarding female participation rates.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 5\, Faculty of History
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