Labour organization Artisans’ wages and working days in eighteenth-century Madrid
Abstract
This essay focuses on artisans’ payments placing them within the framework of the
labour relations, the family cycle, the amount of working days, the means of wage
regulation –including labour conflicts-, and the composition of wages themselves
with a special attention to their non-monetary component. Its main purpose is to
integrate a balanced approach on wages in the historical analysis, which includes
qualitative aspects that have been hardly considered by both contemporary and
current “econometric” studies. This approach is applied to the case study of
eighteenth-and first decades of nineteenth-century Madrid. It takes as a locus of the
analysis the family units, the budgets of which were made up not just by the contribution of the male head of the family but by the rest of their members alike.
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