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List of publications arising directly from the Occupational Structure of Britain c.1379-1911 project

Published

  • Erickson, A.L., 'Married women's work in eighteenth-century London', Continuity & Change 23 (2008), 267-307.
  • Erickson, A.L., [review article] '"What shall we do about the servants?": Carolyn Steedman, Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age, and Alison Light, Mrs Woolf and the Servants', in History Workshop Journal, 67/1 (Spring 2009).
  • Erickson, A.L., [review article] 'Women's work in the eighteenth century: Nancy Locklin, Women's Work and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Brittany, and Isabelle Baudino, et al (eds) Invisible Woman: Aspects of Women's Work in Eighteenth-Century Britain, in Reviews in History 708 (2008) www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/708a.
  • Erickson, A.L., [review] Alison Kay, 'The Foundations of Female Entrepreneurship: Enterprise, Home and Household in London c.1800-1870', in Reviews in History 917 (2009) www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/917.
  • Erickson, A.L., 'Eleanor Mosley and other milliners in the City of London Companies 1700-1750', History Workshop Journal 171 (Spring, 2011), pp. 147-72.
  • Shaw-Taylor, L., Family farms and capitalist farms in mid nineteenth century England, Agricultural History Review 53, II (2005), pp. 158-191.
  • Shaw-Taylor, L., 'Diverse experiences: The geography of adult female employment and the 1851 census', in Goose, N., (ed.) Women's work in Industrial England: Regional and local perspectives (2007).
  • Shaw-Taylor, L., 'The rise of agrarian capitalism and the decline of family farming in England', Economic History Review, (online early 2011). See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1468-0289/earlyview
  • Wrigley, E.A., 'English county populations in the later eighteenth century', Economic History Review, 60 (2007), pp. 35-69.
  • Wrigley, E.A., 'Rickman revisited: the population growth rates of English counties in the early modern period', Economic History Review, 62 (2009), pp. 711-35.
  • Wrigley, E.A., Energy and the English industrial revolution (Cambridge, 2010). (Chapters 5, 6 and 7 arise from the Occupational Structure of Britain c.1379-1911 project)
  • Wrigley, E.A., The early English censuses, British Academy Records of Economic and Social History, new series (Oxford, 1911).
  • Wrigley, E.A., 'Coping with rapid population growth: how England fared in the century preceding the Great Exhibition of 1851', in D. Feldman and J. Lawrence, eds., Structures and transformations in modern British history: essays for Gareth Stedman-Jones (Cambridge, 2011), pp. 24-53.

In preparation

  • Field, J., 'Service, gender and wages in England, c. 1700-1860' forthcoming, The Economic History Review.
  • Erickson, A.L., 'A short history of the Mrs: or, mistresses and marriage', submitted to Social History in January 2012.
  • Erickson, A.L., 'Marital status and economic activity: interpreting spinsters, wives, and widows in pre-census population listings', available as paper 24 at http://www.hpss.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/occupations/abstracts/ To be submitted to Continuity and Change.
  • Erickson, A.L., 'The female labour market in London in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- revisited', for submission to The Economic History Review.
  • Kitson, P., Shaw-Taylor, L., Wrigley, E.A., Davis, R., Newton, G., Satchell, A.E.M., 'The creation of a 'census' of adult male employment for England and Wales for 1817', forthcoming, Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History. See: http://www.econsoc.hist.cam.ac.uk/index.html
  • Shaw-Taylor, L., and Wrigley. E.A., 'Population geography and occupational structure;, in R. Floud, P. Johnson, J. Humphries (eds.) Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain (4th edn. forthcoming).

Unpublished preliminary papers

Unpublished preliminary papers are available online at
http://www.hpss.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/occupations/abstracts/