TY - JOUR
T1 - Household-level predictors of the presence of servants in Northern Orkney, Scotland, 1851-1901
AU - Jennings, Julia A.
AU - Wood, James W.
AU - Johnson, Patricia L.
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge the support of the National Science Foundation (HSD052739), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (T32 HD007514 and T32 HD07168), the Pennsylvania State University Department of Anthropology , the Pennsylvania State University Population Research Institute , and the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We also thank Tim Murtha, Corey Sparks, Kenneth Hirth, Duane Alwin, Stephen Matthews, Debashis Ghosh, Paul Leslie, Leah Boustan, and two anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful comments on the earlier drafts of this paper.
PY - 2011/8/18
Y1 - 2011/8/18
N2 - Servants were an important part of the northwestern European household economy in the preindustrial past. This study examines household-level characteristics that are predictive of the presence of rural servants using data from Orkney, Scotland. The number of servants present in a household is related to household composition, landholding size, and the marital status of the household head. In addition, the sex of the particular servant hired reveals that the labor of male and female servants is not fungible. The sex of the servant hired is related to the ratio of male and female household members of working age, the occupation of the head, household composition, and the size of the household's landholding.
AB - Servants were an important part of the northwestern European household economy in the preindustrial past. This study examines household-level characteristics that are predictive of the presence of rural servants using data from Orkney, Scotland. The number of servants present in a household is related to household composition, landholding size, and the marital status of the household head. In addition, the sex of the particular servant hired reveals that the labor of male and female servants is not fungible. The sex of the servant hired is related to the ratio of male and female household members of working age, the occupation of the head, household composition, and the size of the household's landholding.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.hisfam.2011.01.002
DO - 10.1016/j.hisfam.2011.01.002
M3 - Article
C2 - 21927549
AN - SCOPUS:80052752009
SN - 1081-602X
VL - 16
SP - 278
EP - 291
JO - History of the Family
JF - History of the Family
IS - 3
ER -