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  • Work and earning in the nineteenth century: Townley Colliery as a case study

  • Guy Solomon
  • Journal:
    Continuity and Change / Volume 37 / Issue 3 / December 2022
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    29 March 2023, pp. 335-363
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    December 2022
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  • This article demonstrates the varied and unpredictable nature of earning in the nineteenth century. Using 12,000 fortnightly pay entries from Townley Main Colliery in the north-east of England as a case study, it explores the extent to which the availability of work fluctuated between years, and how workers reacted to this phenomenon. It then considers the frequency with which these individuals undertook the work which was available, and discusses the implications for our understanding of the length of the working year.

  • ‘Poverty, gender and old age in the Victorian and Edwardian workhouse’

  • Samantha Williams
  • Journal:
    Continuity and Change / Volume 37 / Issue 3 / December 2022
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    29 March 2023, pp. 389-421
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    December 2022
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  • The workhouse was a central facet of the new poor law and the elderly – and aged men in particular – came to dominate workhouse populations. This article is the first to analyse a very large data set of almost 4,000 workhouses from all areas of England and Wales extracted from the I-CeM data set, which reveals the composition of workhouse residents on census night by age, gender, and geography between 1851 and 1911. Factors influencing the proportion of the elderly in the workhouse include the dependency ratio and internal migration, urbanisation and a commitment to institutions in cities, and the availability of outdoor relief and other avenues of support. Destitution, want of work, old age and illness propelled the elderly into the workhouse. The crusade against outrelief of the 1870s contributed to this increase, and, while the introduction of old age pensions reduced those over the age of 70, this did not prevent the ‘younger aged’ (those aged 60–69) from increasing.

  • Rural electrification in Spain: territorial expansion and effects on the agricultural sector (c. 1900–c. 2000)

  • Josean Garrués-Irurzun, Iñaki Iriarte-Goñi
  • Journal:
    Rural History / Volume 34 / Issue 2 / October 2023
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    28 November 2022, pp. 201-219
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  • Rural electrification is closely linked one way or another to rural development, and enables the understanding of the complexity of social and economic development paths. The objective of this work is to analyse rural electrification in a European peripherical country like Spain throughout the twentieth century, contributing to the international debate on the issue. The article studies the territorial expansion of electricity in the Spanish countryside, tracing different phases and explaining the delay in the construction of a national network. It also analyses the relationship that arose in the long term between electrification and the evolution of the agricultural sector. The article concludes that, in the Spanish case, rural electrification played a modest role in agricultural change until the 1980s and was, to a great extent, the consequence, rather than the cause, of the modernisation of the sector to these years.

  • ISH volume 67 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    International Review of Social History / Volume 67 / Issue 3 / December 2022
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    25 November 2022, pp. f1-f4
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  • Journal:
    International Review of Social History / Volume 67 / Issue 3 / December 2022
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    25 November 2022, pp. 595-625
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  • ISH volume 67 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

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    International Review of Social History / Volume 67 / Issue 3 / December 2022
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    25 November 2022, pp. b1-b3
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