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Work and wages at Durham Priory and its estates, 1494-1519

Newman, C.M.

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Authors

C.M. Newman



Abstract

This article explores aspects of employment on the Durham Priory estates in the years 1494-1519. From a perspective of prices and wages, this period belongs at the tail end of a Golden Age for labour. Employment opportunities for the priory workforce should, therefore, have been relatively plentiful and remuneratively rewarding. However, as an analysis of the priory's accounts reveals, whilst wage rates remained stable, the waged employment offered was irregular and piecemeal for all but a small, predominantly skilled elite, with the majority of the workforce enjoying little in the way of fixed employment patterns or identifiable career structures.

Citation

Newman, C. (2001). Work and wages at Durham Priory and its estates, 1494-1519. Continuity and Change, 16(3), 357-378. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0268416001003915

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date 2001-12
Deposit Date May 23, 2008
Publicly Available Date May 23, 2008
Journal Continuity and Change
Print ISSN 0268-4160
Electronic ISSN 1469-218X
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 16
Issue 3
Pages 357-378
DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/s0268416001003915
Keywords Employment, Workforce, Career, Remuneration.

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