Work and wages of artisans in Madrid, 1690-1836 A qualitative approach
Keywords:
Apprenticeship, Madrid, early-modern, earnings, craftsmen, guilds.
Abstract
This article proposes an analysis of artisans’ wages in early-modern Madrid from a perspective which, rather than the adult male’s, takes apprentices’ wages as the main reference, in both the private (artisan workshops) and the public sectors (mills in hospices and orphanages). It focuses on the monetary and non monetary compo-nents of artisans’ incomes, in order to uncover the mechanisms that regulated them, taking as explanatory elements the context of the workshop, the family cycle, and the leverage of journeymen’s associations. The empirical base comprises 1,953 in-denture contracts for 25 crafts, the accounting books of the Hospice of the Ave María and the foundling school of Niñas de la Paz, and the documentation related to con-flicts held between masters and journeymen over wages.Downloads
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Agua de la Roza J., López Barahona V. y Nieto SáncheZ J. A. (2016). Work and wages of artisans in Madrid, 1690-1836 A qualitative approach. Sociología del Trabajo, 88, 87-109. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/STRA/article/view/59681
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