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CATEGORIES:Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
SUMMARY:Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It'
 s not (all) about the money - Jordan Claridge\, LS
 E
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DESCRIPTION:For long periods of history\, a significant propor
 tion of the labour force has received all or part 
 of their wages in non-monetary in-kind payments. D
 espite its historical ubiquity\, this form of labo
 ur remuneration remains poorly understood. This pa
 per presents a framework which allows for the valu
 ation and interpretation of in-kind wages. We appl
 y our method to a new dataset of agricultural wage
 s for labourers in medieval England (1270-1430)\, 
 most of whom received a composite wage for which i
 n-kind payment was the largest share. Assessing th
 e market value of the wages these workers received
 \, we find an increase in the relative importance 
 of cash payments in the latter decades of the four
 teenth century. We show that this was connected to
  a fundamental shift in labour relations\, providi
 ng new empirical insights into the so-called `gold
 en age of labour’ that followed the Black Death.
LOCATION:Room 6\, Faculty of History
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