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SUMMARY:Maintaining oneself in early modern England - Alex Shepard (Glasgo
 w)
DTSTART:20140206T170000Z
DTEND:20140206T190000Z
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CONTACT:Amy Erickson
DESCRIPTION:This paper explores the responses provided by witnesses in the
  English church courts to questions about how they maintained themselves o
 r got a living\, drawing on a dataset of over 13\,500 statements recorded 
 between 1550 and 1728. The discussion reflects on the evidence of women's 
 productive activity and on the discrepancies between male socio/occupation
 al titles and what they actually did for a living\, in order to argue that
  there was rather more gender convergence in the working lives of men and 
 women than is conventionally acknowledged either by economic historians or
  by historians of women. The paper also argues that a gradual shift of emp
 hasis from having to getting a living began to reshape concepts of work fo
 r both men and women from the later seventeenth century.
LOCATION:Linnett Room\, Robinson College
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