Sara Horrell
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 378739 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sara Horrell |
| NOMBRES | Sara |
| APELLIDO | Horrell |
| FIRMA | HORRELL S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 380 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
‘Elbow grease and yellow soap’
Housework is central to feminist calls for recognition of women's work, economic histories explaining the sexual division of labour, and claims regarding the progressive role of scientific knowledge. Yet little is known about the time it actually took. We address this lacuna. We utilize British sources and find a substantial increase in the hours ordinary women spent on domestic labour between the late‐eighteenth and the mid‐twentieth centuries. …
Forgotten Family
E. A. Wrigley identified the responsiveness of nuptiality and marital fertility to changes in male wages. Others have theorized the importance of women's decision-making in the timing of marriage, but without much empirical evidence. Combining new long-run series of annual wages for men, for married and single women, and for children with existing demographic data, the influence of women and children's remuneration on household formation is inves…
Household consumption patterns and the consumer price index, England, 1260–1869
Existing long‐run consumer price indices for England rely on a fixed consumption basket. Here we construct a methodologically improved, chained‐Laspeyres price index for ordinary households based on their changing expenditure patterns between 1260 and 1869. Rather than offering a revisionist perspective on long‐run costs, it confirms the broad accuracy of existing indices for the pre‐industrial period. The dominant dependence of the key items of …
Beyond the male breadwinner
This article provides a novel framework within which to evaluate real household incomes of predominantly rural working families of various sizes and structures in England in the years 1260-1850. We reject ahistorical assumptions about complete reliance on men's wages and male breadwinning, moving closer to reality by including women and children's contributions to family incomes. Our empirical strategy benefits from recent estimates of men's annu…
Family Standards of Living Over the Long Run, England 1280-1850
This article uses new wage series for men, women and children in combination with an established cost of living index and standard assumptions about family size to construct a measure of family welfare in England, 1280-1850. It asks whether this family could achieve a standard of living historically defined as 'respectable'. It extracts information from primary and secondary sources to make adjustments for the participation rates of women and chi…
Children’s work and wages in Britain, 1280–1860
Gender bias in nineteenth-century England
Consumption conundrums unravelled
While consumption has moved to centre stage in accounts ofBritain's industrialization, evidence on the mass transformation of homes and expenditure on novelty is hard to reconcile with the poor living standards experienced by many working people. Part of the conundrum arises from the limitations of available probate evidence, but the motivational drivers behind raised consumption can also be questioned. Was it changed tastes or falling prices bec…
Nutrition in theEnglish agricultural labourer's household over the course of the long nineteenth century
The welfare of agricultural labourers has recently received renewed interest in both establishing living standards for a baseline group over the long term, and assessing the energy available for increased physical labour in the eighteenth century. Disagreement persists. This article examines a key aspect of agricultural labourers' families' welfare: nutrient consumption. We utilize datasets of the diets of agricultural labourers' households for 1…
Bringing home the bacon? Regional nutrition, stature, and gender in the industrial revolution1
The impact of changing diet and resultant nutrition on living standards over the industrial revolution has been much debated, yet existing data have enabled only general trends to be identified. We use data from Eden's survey of parishes in 1795 and the Rural Queries of 1834 to go beyond average calorie intake, instead focusing on micronutrients and quality of diet. From this we discern regional differences in diet. In 1795 these differences were…
Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain
Joyce Burnette, Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain (2008), xii + 377 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, £55.00/$99.00). Discussions of women's position in the
Measuring misery
Poverty and productivity in female-headed households in Zimbabwe
A household survey conducted in rural Zimbabwe in 2001 is used to compare the position of de facto and de jure female-headed households to those with a male head. These households are characterised by different forms of poverty that impinge on their ability to improve agricultural productivity. However, once inputs are accounted for, it is only for growing cotton that female-headed households' productivity is lower than that found for male-headed…
The Wonderful Usefulness of History
The Cambridge Economic History of the United States. Volume I: The Colonial Era. Edited by Engerman (Stanley) and Gallman (Robert) (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xi+481. £60.00 hardback, US $99.95 hardback. ISBN 0 521 39442 2). The Cambridge Economic History of the United States. Volume II: The Long Nineteenth Century. Edited by Engerman (Stanley) and Gallman (Robert) (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University P…
Destined for Deprivation
Work and prudence
A survey of industrial households conducted in 1889–90 is used to investigate participation in self-help organisations, such as sickness and death benefit clubs and friendly societies, and to examine whether payouts were important in seeing families through earnings crises. Formal self-help has been hypothesised to underpin the male breadwinner family form, reducing the risk incumbent in reliance on one source of earnings. The results here show t…
Crust or crumb
Stature and relative deprivation
Economic historians and development economists have exploited links between nutrition, health status and physical stature to argue that evidence about height can be used to supplement conventional economic indices of well-being. Evidence on stature may be available for time periods when conventional economic indices are not. It may also exist for sections of populations for which only aggregate income data is available, and so expose variations i…
The Origins and Expansion of the Male Breadwinner Family
The transition from a family economy in which incomes were democratically secured through the best efforts of all family members to one in which men supported dependent wives and children appears as a watershed in many otherwise very different histories of the family. It looms large in both orthodox economic analyses of historical trends in female participation rates and feminist depictions of a symbiotic structural relationship between inherited…
Home Demand and British Industrialization
Household budget studies are used to assess working-class demand for manufactures over industrialization. Contrary to demand-side proponents, increased urbanization, enhanced opportunities for women's and children's work, and a declining subsistence sector all retrenched consumption patterns into demand for the products of traditional industries and decreased demand for the products of new manufacturing industries. However, consideration of natio…
The Exploitation of Little Children
Women's labour force participation and the transition to the male-breadwinner family, 1790-1865
Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries, Women's Labour Force Participation and the Transition to the Male-Breadwinner Family, 1790-1865, The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 48, No. 1 (Feb., 1995), pp. 89-117
An input-output table for 1841
S tudies of industrialization inevitably involve some investigation of economic structure: structural changes comprise a defining characteristic of 'the industrial revolution' according to standard descriptions2 and the construction of output index numbers to ascertain growth rates requires knowledge of the distribution of value added.3 Surprisingly, these concerns have not spilled over into a direct interest in the interrelationships among indus…
Old Questions, New Data, and Alternative Perspectives
We have used the household accounts of 1,350 husband-wife families to investigate trends in male earnings and family incomes. This evidence confirms the material progress suggested by trends in the real wage rates of adult males. But the budget data underscore occupational and regional distinctions, discontinuities in the growth process, and changes over time in the ability of other family members to offset the effects of the business cycle on me…
Aid, the Public Sector and the Market in Less Developed Countries
Journal Article Aid, the Public Sector and the Market in Less Developed Countries: A Reply Get access Paul Mosley, Paul Mosley University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John Hudson, John Hudson University of Bath Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sara Horrell Sara Horrell Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge Search for other works by…
Women's labour force participation and the transition to the male-breadwinner family, 1790-1865
Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries, Women's Labour Force Participation and the Transition to the Male-Breadwinner Family, 1790-1865, The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 48, No. 1 (Feb., 1995), pp. 89-117
Aid, the Public Sector and the Market in Less Developed Countries
Journal Article Aid, the Public Sector and the Market in Less Developed Countries Get access Paul Mosley, Paul Mosley University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John Hudson, John Hudson University of Bath Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sara Horrell Sara Horrell Trinity College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
The Origins and Expansion of the Male Breadwinner Family
The transition from a family economy in which incomes were democratically secured through the best efforts of all family members to one in which men supported dependent wives and children appears as a watershed in many otherwise very different histories of the family. It looms large in both orthodox economic analyses of historical trends in female participation rates and feminist depictions of a symbiotic structural relationship between inherited…
The Exploitation of Little Children
Measuring misery
Old Questions, New Data, and Alternative Perspectives
We have used the household accounts of 1,350 husband-wife families to investigate trends in male earnings and family incomes. This evidence confirms the material progress suggested by trends in the real wage rates of adult males. But the budget data underscore occupational and regional distinctions, discontinuities in the growth process, and changes over time in the ability of other family members to offset the effects of the business cycle on me…
Gender and Skills
A survey of a random sample of over 600 employed adults in the Northampton area is used to compare men's and women's perceptions of the content of their jobs and to construct an index of skill. Differences were found between men and women in perceptions of both the types of skills required in their jobs, with women emphasising personal and social skills, and in the level of skill involved. Men's jobs on average appeared to be higher skilled, but …
Home Demand and British Industrialization
Household budget studies are used to assess working-class demand for manufactures over industrialization. Contrary to demand-side proponents, increased urbanization, enhanced opportunities for women's and children's work, and a declining subsistence sector all retrenched consumption patterns into demand for the products of traditional industries and decreased demand for the products of new manufacturing industries. However, consideration of natio…
Destined for Deprivation
An input-output table for 1841
S tudies of industrialization inevitably involve some investigation of economic structure: structural changes comprise a defining characteristic of 'the industrial revolution' according to standard descriptions2 and the construction of output index numbers to ascertain growth rates requires knowledge of the distribution of value added.3 Surprisingly, these concerns have not spilled over into a direct interest in the interrelationships among indus…
Work and prudence
A survey of industrial households conducted in 1889–90 is used to investigate participation in self-help organisations, such as sickness and death benefit clubs and friendly societies, and to examine whether payouts were important in seeing families through earnings crises. Formal self-help has been hypothesised to underpin the male breadwinner family form, reducing the risk incumbent in reliance on one source of earnings. The results here show t…
Beyond the male breadwinner
This article provides a novel framework within which to evaluate real household incomes of predominantly rural working families of various sizes and structures in England in the years 1260-1850. We reject ahistorical assumptions about complete reliance on men's wages and male breadwinning, moving closer to reality by including women and children's contributions to family incomes. Our empirical strategy benefits from recent estimates of men's annu…
Crust or crumb
Bringing home the bacon? Regional nutrition, stature, and gender in the industrial revolution1
The impact of changing diet and resultant nutrition on living standards over the industrial revolution has been much debated, yet existing data have enabled only general trends to be identified. We use data from Eden's survey of parishes in 1795 and the Rural Queries of 1834 to go beyond average calorie intake, instead focusing on micronutrients and quality of diet. From this we discern regional differences in diet. In 1795 these differences were…
Stature and relative deprivation
Economic historians and development economists have exploited links between nutrition, health status and physical stature to argue that evidence about height can be used to supplement conventional economic indices of well-being. Evidence on stature may be available for time periods when conventional economic indices are not. It may also exist for sections of populations for which only aggregate income data is available, and so expose variations i…
Family Standards of Living Over the Long Run, England 1280-1850
This article uses new wage series for men, women and children in combination with an established cost of living index and standard assumptions about family size to construct a measure of family welfare in England, 1280-1850. It asks whether this family could achieve a standard of living historically defined as 'respectable'. It extracts information from primary and secondary sources to make adjustments for the participation rates of women and chi…
Children’s work and wages in Britain, 1280–1860
Household consumption patterns and the consumer price index, England, 1260–1869
Existing long‐run consumer price indices for England rely on a fixed consumption basket. Here we construct a methodologically improved, chained‐Laspeyres price index for ordinary households based on their changing expenditure patterns between 1260 and 1869. Rather than offering a revisionist perspective on long‐run costs, it confirms the broad accuracy of existing indices for the pre‐industrial period. The dominant dependence of the key items of …
Nutrition in theEnglish agricultural labourer's household over the course of the long nineteenth century
The welfare of agricultural labourers has recently received renewed interest in both establishing living standards for a baseline group over the long term, and assessing the energy available for increased physical labour in the eighteenth century. Disagreement persists. This article examines a key aspect of agricultural labourers' families' welfare: nutrient consumption. We utilize datasets of the diets of agricultural labourers' households for 1…
Consumption conundrums unravelled
While consumption has moved to centre stage in accounts ofBritain's industrialization, evidence on the mass transformation of homes and expenditure on novelty is hard to reconcile with the poor living standards experienced by many working people. Part of the conundrum arises from the limitations of available probate evidence, but the motivational drivers behind raised consumption can also be questioned. Was it changed tastes or falling prices bec…
The Wonderful Usefulness of History
The Cambridge Economic History of the United States. Volume I: The Colonial Era. Edited by Engerman (Stanley) and Gallman (Robert) (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xi+481. £60.00 hardback, US $99.95 hardback. ISBN 0 521 39442 2). The Cambridge Economic History of the United States. Volume II: The Long Nineteenth Century. Edited by Engerman (Stanley) and Gallman (Robert) (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University P…
Aid, the Public Sector and the Market in Less Developed Countries
Journal Article Aid, the Public Sector and the Market in Less Developed Countries: A Reply Get access Paul Mosley, Paul Mosley University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John Hudson, John Hudson University of Bath Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sara Horrell Sara Horrell Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge Search for other works by…
Aid, the Public Sector and the Market in Less Developed Countries
Journal Article Aid, the Public Sector and the Market in Less Developed Countries Get access Paul Mosley, Paul Mosley University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John Hudson, John Hudson University of Bath Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sara Horrell Sara Horrell Trinity College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
Aid, the Public Sector and the Market in Less Developed Countries
Journal Article Aid, the Public Sector and the Market in Less Developed Countries: A Reply Get access Paul Mosley, Paul Mosley University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John Hudson, John Hudson University of Bath Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sara Horrell Sara Horrell Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge Search for other works by…
Gender and Skills
A survey of a random sample of over 600 employed adults in the Northampton area is used to compare men's and women's perceptions of the content of their jobs and to construct an index of skill. Differences were found between men and women in perceptions of both the types of skills required in their jobs, with women emphasising personal and social skills, and in the level of skill involved. Men's jobs on average appeared to be higher skilled, but …
Old Questions, New Data, and Alternative Perspectives
We have used the household accounts of 1,350 husband-wife families to investigate trends in male earnings and family incomes. This evidence confirms the material progress suggested by trends in the real wage rates of adult males. But the budget data underscore occupational and regional distinctions, discontinuities in the growth process, and changes over time in the ability of other family members to offset the effects of the business cycle on me…
An input-output table for 1841
S tudies of industrialization inevitably involve some investigation of economic structure: structural changes comprise a defining characteristic of 'the industrial revolution' according to standard descriptions2 and the construction of output index numbers to ascertain growth rates requires knowledge of the distribution of value added.3 Surprisingly, these concerns have not spilled over into a direct interest in the interrelationships among indus…
The Exploitation of Little Children
Women's labour force participation and the transition to the male-breadwinner family, 1790-1865
Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries, Women's Labour Force Participation and the Transition to the Male-Breadwinner Family, 1790-1865, The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 48, No. 1 (Feb., 1995), pp. 89-117
Home Demand and British Industrialization
Household budget studies are used to assess working-class demand for manufactures over industrialization. Contrary to demand-side proponents, increased urbanization, enhanced opportunities for women's and children's work, and a declining subsistence sector all retrenched consumption patterns into demand for the products of traditional industries and decreased demand for the products of new manufacturing industries. However, consideration of natio…
The Origins and Expansion of the Male Breadwinner Family
The transition from a family economy in which incomes were democratically secured through the best efforts of all family members to one in which men supported dependent wives and children appears as a watershed in many otherwise very different histories of the family. It looms large in both orthodox economic analyses of historical trends in female participation rates and feminist depictions of a symbiotic structural relationship between inherited…
Stature and relative deprivation
Economic historians and development economists have exploited links between nutrition, health status and physical stature to argue that evidence about height can be used to supplement conventional economic indices of well-being. Evidence on stature may be available for time periods when conventional economic indices are not. It may also exist for sections of populations for which only aggregate income data is available, and so expose variations i…
Crust or crumb
Work and prudence
A survey of industrial households conducted in 1889–90 is used to investigate participation in self-help organisations, such as sickness and death benefit clubs and friendly societies, and to examine whether payouts were important in seeing families through earnings crises. Formal self-help has been hypothesised to underpin the male breadwinner family form, reducing the risk incumbent in reliance on one source of earnings. The results here show t…
Destined for Deprivation
The Wonderful Usefulness of History
The Cambridge Economic History of the United States. Volume I: The Colonial Era. Edited by Engerman (Stanley) and Gallman (Robert) (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xi+481. £60.00 hardback, US $99.95 hardback. ISBN 0 521 39442 2). The Cambridge Economic History of the United States. Volume II: The Long Nineteenth Century. Edited by Engerman (Stanley) and Gallman (Robert) (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University P…
Poverty and productivity in female-headed households in Zimbabwe
A household survey conducted in rural Zimbabwe in 2001 is used to compare the position of de facto and de jure female-headed households to those with a male head. These households are characterised by different forms of poverty that impinge on their ability to improve agricultural productivity. However, once inputs are accounted for, it is only for growing cotton that female-headed households' productivity is lower than that found for male-headed…
Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain
Joyce Burnette, Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain (2008), xii + 377 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, £55.00/$99.00). Discussions of women's position in the
Measuring misery
Bringing home the bacon? Regional nutrition, stature, and gender in the industrial revolution1
The impact of changing diet and resultant nutrition on living standards over the industrial revolution has been much debated, yet existing data have enabled only general trends to be identified. We use data from Eden's survey of parishes in 1795 and the Rural Queries of 1834 to go beyond average calorie intake, instead focusing on micronutrients and quality of diet. From this we discern regional differences in diet. In 1795 these differences were…
Nutrition in theEnglish agricultural labourer's household over the course of the long nineteenth century
The welfare of agricultural labourers has recently received renewed interest in both establishing living standards for a baseline group over the long term, and assessing the energy available for increased physical labour in the eighteenth century. Disagreement persists. This article examines a key aspect of agricultural labourers' families' welfare: nutrient consumption. We utilize datasets of the diets of agricultural labourers' households for 1…
Consumption conundrums unravelled
While consumption has moved to centre stage in accounts ofBritain's industrialization, evidence on the mass transformation of homes and expenditure on novelty is hard to reconcile with the poor living standards experienced by many working people. Part of the conundrum arises from the limitations of available probate evidence, but the motivational drivers behind raised consumption can also be questioned. Was it changed tastes or falling prices bec…
Gender bias in nineteenth-century England
Children’s work and wages in Britain, 1280–1860
Family Standards of Living Over the Long Run, England 1280-1850
This article uses new wage series for men, women and children in combination with an established cost of living index and standard assumptions about family size to construct a measure of family welfare in England, 1280-1850. It asks whether this family could achieve a standard of living historically defined as 'respectable'. It extracts information from primary and secondary sources to make adjustments for the participation rates of women and chi…
Beyond the male breadwinner
This article provides a novel framework within which to evaluate real household incomes of predominantly rural working families of various sizes and structures in England in the years 1260-1850. We reject ahistorical assumptions about complete reliance on men's wages and male breadwinning, moving closer to reality by including women and children's contributions to family incomes. Our empirical strategy benefits from recent estimates of men's annu…
Household consumption patterns and the consumer price index, England, 1260–1869
Existing long‐run consumer price indices for England rely on a fixed consumption basket. Here we construct a methodologically improved, chained‐Laspeyres price index for ordinary households based on their changing expenditure patterns between 1260 and 1869. Rather than offering a revisionist perspective on long‐run costs, it confirms the broad accuracy of existing indices for the pre‐industrial period. The dominant dependence of the key items of …
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