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SUMMARY:Skill\, work and pay in London building trades\, 1660 - 1790 - Jud
 y Stephenson (LSE)
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DESCRIPTION:This paper uses the archival records of some of London's major
  seventeenth century building projects to show the scale and scope of buil
 ding contracting and contractors in the long eighteenth century\, and how 
 skill was deployed and valued in the resulting hierarchies and networks. A
 lthough it is frequently assumed building craftsmen worked in small artisa
 n teams in this period the evidence shows that with large market and proje
 ct expansion\, contractors and subcontractors used complex and flexible or
 ganizational hierarchies that responded to market forces and transaction c
 osts. I examine human capital inputs to the building process at all levels
 \, design\, administration\, supply\, construction\, and across a number o
 f trades and show evidence of shifts in relative reward for different grou
 ps.
LOCATION:History Faculty Board Room
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