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- Title
Rural Domestic Servants in Eighteenth-Century Burgundy: Demography, Economy, and Mobility.
- Authors
HAYHOE, JEREMY
- Abstract
The article examines the demographic and economic characteristics of rural domestic servants in 18th-century Burgundy, France. Through an analysis of servant literacy rates, the author determines that all domestics came from poor families. He is also concerned with servants' mobility patterns, particularly those of female domestics, and the way in which they reflect the changing gender make-up of Burgundy's domestic workforce. Other topics addressed include gender differences pertaining to servants' wages and food allowances, capital accumulation among domestics, and late marriage.
- Subjects
BURGUNDY (France); FRANCE; HOUSEHOLD employees; DEMOGRAPHIC characteristics; RURAL population; GEOGRAPHIC mobility; DEMOGRAPHY; WAGES; POOR people; WOMEN household employees; MARRIAGE; LITERACY; EIGHTEENTH century; HISTORY; ECONOMIC history
- Publication
Journal of Social History, 2012, Vol 46, Issue 2, p549
- ISSN
0022-4529
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jsh/shs095