Joyce Burnette
John H. Schroeder Interdisciplinary Chair in Economics
Wabash College
Crawfordsville, Indiana

Office Address:

Department of Economics
Wabash College
Crawfordsville, IN 47933
USA
(765) 361-6073
burnettj@wabash.edu

Vita

Burnette Vita

Working Papers

"How Not To Measure the Standard of Living"    HowNotToMeasure.pdf

Publications

"Why We Shouldn't Measure Women's Labor Force Participation in Pre-Industrial Countries" Economic History of Developing Regions, 2021, 36:422-427.

"Missing Work: Absenteeism at Pepperell Manufacturing Co. in 1883," Cliometrica, 2021, 15:755-786.

with Maria Stanfors, "Understanding the Gender Gap Further: The Case of Turn-of-the-Century Swedish Compositors," Journal of Economic History, 2020, 80:175-206

"Gender in Economic History" in Handbook of Cliometrics, 2d ed., Claude Diebolt and Mike Haupert, eds., Springer, 2019.

"Seasonal Patterns of Agricultural Day-Labour at Eight English Farms, 1835-1844" in John Hatcher and Judy Stephenson, eds., Seven Centuries of Unreal Wages, Palgrave, 2018.

“The Paradox of Progress: The Emergence of Wage Discrimination in US Manufacturing,” European Review of Economic History, 2015, 19:128-148.

with Maria Stanfors, “Estimating Historical Wage Profiles,” Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 2015, 48:35–51.

"Agriculture, 1700-1870, in Roderick Floud, Paul Johnson, and Jane Humphries, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
 
“Decomposing the Wage Gap: Within- and Between-Occupation Gender Wage Gaps at a Nineteenth-Century Textile Firm,” in Avner Greif, Lynne Kiesling, and John V. C. Nye, eds., Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and Development, Princeton Univ. Press, 2014.

"The Seasonality of English Agricultural Employment: Evidence from Farm Accounts, 1740-1850," in Richard Hoyle, ed., The Farmer in England, 1650-1980, Ashgate: 2013.

"The Changing Economic Roles of Women," in Robert Whaples and Randall E. Parker, eds., Routledge Handbook of Modern Economic History, Routledge, 2013, pp. 306–315.

with Maria Stanfors, "Was there a Family Gap in Late Nineteenth-Century Manufacturing? Evidence from Sweden," The History of the Family, 2012, 17:51-76.

"Child Day-Labourers in Agriculture: Evidence from Farm Accounts, 1740-1850" Economic History Review, 2012, 65:1077-99.

Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revoltuion Britain,Cambridge University Press, 2008.

“Married with Children: The Family Status of Female Agricultural Labourers at Two Southwestern Farms in the 1830s and 1840s,” Agricultural History Review, 2007, 55:75–94.

“ How Skilled Were Agricultural Labourers in the Early Nineteenth Century?” Economic History Review, 2006, LIX:688-716.

"The Wages and Employment of Female Day-labourers in English Agriculture, 1740-1850" Economic History Review, LVII(Nov. 2004):664-690

“Labourers at the Oakes: Changes in the Demand for Female Day-Laborers at a Farm near Sheffield During the Agricultural Revolution,” Journal of Economic History, 59 (March 1999):41-67

“An Investigation of the Male-Female Wage Gap in Industrial Revolution Britain,” Economic History Review, L (May 1997):257-281

“Testing for Occupational Crowding in Eighteenth-Century British Agriculture,” Explorations in Economic History, 33 (July 1996):319-345

Web Publication

eh.net Encyclopedia, "Women Workers - British Industrial Revolution"
https://eh.net/encyclopedia/women-workers-in-the-british-industrial-revolution/

Data Page

This page contains data on the wages and employment of male and female day laborers at English Farms, 1740-1850.