Peter Scholliers works at the Center for Contemporary Social History, Free University Brussels.

• List of Figures and TablesIntroductionChapter 1. The wage in Europe since the sixteenth centuryPeter Scholliers and Leonard SchwarzCustom, Wages and the MarketChapter 2. Institutional and cultural change in wage formation: port labour in Antwerp (sixteenth – eighteenth centuries)Harald DeceulaerChapter 3. When labour hires capital: evidence from Lancashire, 1870–1914Michael HubermanChapter 4. Giving notice: the legitimate way of quitting and firing (Ghent, 1877–1896)Patricia Van den EeckhoutChanging Pay Systems and Wage FormsChapter 5. Wage forms, wage systems and wage conflicts in German crafts during the eighteenth and earlier nineteenth centuriesReinhold ReithChapter 6. Wage forms, pay systems and labour control in nineteenth-century agriculture. Evidence from the Dutch province of GroningenHenny Gooren and Hans HegerChapter 7. Cash, wages and the economy of makeshifts in England, 1650–1800Craig Muldrew and Steven KingAge, Gender and WagesChapter 8. Gendered wage systems and industrialisation in Finland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesSakari HeikkinenChapter 9. Engendering the experience of wages: the evolution of the piecework system at the Spanish Tobacco Monopoly, 1800–1930sLina Gálvez-MuñozChapter 10. Age, gender and the wage in Britain, 1830–1930Paul JohnsonChapter 11. At what cost was pre-eminence purchased? Child labour and the first industrial revolutionJane HumphriesNotes on ContributorsIndex

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