Jane Humphries

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Jane Humphries is affiliated with the following schools: University of Oxford, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Cornell University, University of Cambridge

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According to Wikipedia, Katherine Jane Humphries, CBE FBA , is a Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford with the Title of Distinction of professor of economic history. Her research interest has been in economic growth and development and the industrial revolution. She is the former president of the Economic History Society and the current vice-president of the Economic History Association.

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The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain (2004) (301)
Enclosures, Common Rights, and Women: The Proletarianization of Families in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (1990) (267)
The industrious revolution : consumer behavior and the household economy, 1650 to the present (2008) (261)
Women's labour force participation and the transition to the male-breadwinner family, 1790-1865 (1995) (243)
Class Struggle and the Persistence of the Working-Class Family (1977) (207)
"The Exploitation of Little Children": Child Labor and the Family Economy in the Industrial Revolution (1995) (176)
Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution (2013) (171)
Off the Record: Reconstructing Women's Labor Force Participation in the European Past (2012) (167)
Old Questions, New Data, and Alternative Perspectives: Families' Living Standards in the Industrial Revolution (1992) (149)
The Lure of Aggregates and the Pitfalls of the Patriarchal Perspective: A Critique of the High Wage Economy Interpretation of the British Industrial Revolution (2013) (139)
Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution: List of figures (2010) (136)
The Origins and Expansion of the Male Breadwinner Family: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Britain (1997) (113)
The Reconstitution of the Supply Side of the Labour Market: The Relative Autonomy of Social Reproduction (1984) (107)
The Wages of Women in England, 1260–1850 (2014) (102)
Protective Legislation, the Capitalist State, and Working Class Men: The Case of the 1842 Mines Regulation Act (1981) (95)
Unreal Wages? Real Income and Economic Growth in England, 1260-1850 (2017) (92)
The Gender Gap in Wages (2009) (77)
Mundane heroines: Conflict, Ethnicity, Gender, and Female Headship in Eastern Sri Lanka (2004) (73)
"Bread and a pennyworth of treacle": excess female mortality in England in the 1840s. (1991) (69)
EXPLORING THE CHALLENGES OF AMARTYA SEN'S WORK AND IDEAS: AN INTRODUCTION (2003) (65)
Spinning the Industrial Revolution (2019) (64)
English Apprenticeship: A Neglected Factor in the First Industrial Revolution (2006) (62)
CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION (2003) (62)
Amartya Sen's Work and Ideas: A Gender Perspective (2005) (62)
Destined for deprivation: human capital formation and intergenerational poverty in nineteenth-century England. (2001) (62)
Excess Female Mortality in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales (2005) (57)
Was Dick Whittington taller than those he left behind? Anthropometric measures, migration and the quality of life in early nineteenth century London? (2009) (56)
THE ECONOMICS OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES (1996) (52)
The Working Class Family, Women's Liberation, and Class Struggle: The Case of Nineteenth Century British History (1977) (49)
“…The Most Free From Objection …” The Sexual Division of Labor and Women's Work in Nineteenth-Century England (1987) (48)
Female-headed households in early industrial Britain: the vanguard of the proletariat. (1998) (46)
An input-output table for 1841 (1994) (45)
Cities, Market Integration, and Going to Sea: Stunting and the Standard of Living in Early Nineteenth-Century England and Wales (2009) (42)
Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700–1820. By J. M. Neeson. Past and Present Publications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 382. $54.95 (1995) (39)
Capabilities, freedom, and equality : Amartya Sen's work from a gender perspective (2006) (38)
Gender and Economics (1995) (36)
Child labor : lessons from the historical experience of today's industrial economies (2003) (34)
The dilemmas of lone motherhood: key issues for feminist economics (2004) (34)
Stature and relative deprivation: fatherless children in early industrial Britain (1998) (32)
`Because they are too menny...` children, mothers, and fertility decline: The evidence from working-class autobiographies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (2006) (31)
Unreal Wages? A New Empirical Foundation for the Study of Living Standards and Economic Growth in England, 1260‐1860 (2016) (30)
Short stature among coal‐mining children: a comment (1997) (28)
Women: Scapegoats and Safety Valves in the Great Depression (1976) (25)
Inter-War House Building, Cheap Money and Building Societies: The Housing Boom Revisited (1987) (23)
Towards a family‐friendly economics (1998) (19)
Hard labour: the forgotten voices of Latvian Migrant “Volunteer” workers (2007) (19)
Causes of Growth (1976) (19)
Equal Opportunities as a Productive Factor (2003) (18)
"Lurking in the Wings...": Women in the Historiography of the Industrial Revolution (1991) (18)
The ‘Emancipation’ of women in the 1970s and 1980s: From the latent to the floating (1983) (17)
The Sexual Division of Labor and Social Control: An Interpretation (1991) (17)
Class and historical analysis for the study of women and economic change. (1982) (16)
Family Standards of Living Over the Long Run, England 1280–1850* (2019) (15)
Consumption Conundrums Unravelled (2015) (15)
Standard of Living, Quality of Life (2007) (14)
Death and Gender in Victorian England and Wales: Comparisons with Contemporary Developing Countries (1998) (14)
Special issue on the family: introduction (1999) (13)
Cliometrics, child labor, and the industrial revolution (1999) (11)
History Matters: Essays on Economic Growth, Technology, and Demographic Change (2004) (11)
Edith Penrose: A Feminist Economist? (2003) (10)
Marjatta Rahikainen, Centuries of Child Labour: European Experiences from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century, Aldershot, Hampshire, Ashgate. ix + 272. £45. 0 7546 0498 5 (2006) (10)
Children’s work and wages in Britain, 1280–1860 (2019) (9)
Female-headship in Eastern Sri Lanka: A comparative study of ethnic communities in the context of conflict (2003) (8)
Child Labour and British Industrialization (1999) (8)
Women and paid work (2008) (8)
Malthus's missing women and children: demography and wages in historical perspective, England 1280-1850 (2020) (8)
REVIEW: The Cultural Intermediaries Reader (Jennifer Smith Maguire and Julian Matthews, eds.: Sage, 2014) (2017) (7)
Destined for Deprivation? Intergenerational Poverty Traps in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2000) (7)
Poverty, Progress, and Population. By E. A. Wrigley. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiv + 463 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $28.00. ISBN: cloth 0-521-82278-5; paper 0-521-52974-3 (2004) (7)
INTRODUCTION / THE STATUS OF WOMEN ECONOMISTS IN US UNIVERSITIES AND THE WORLD / THE STATUS OF WOMEN ECONOMISTS IN UK UNIVERSITIES / THE STATUS OF WOMEN ECONOMISTS IN CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES / THE STATUS OF WOMEN ECONOMISTS IN CHINA'S UNIVERSITIES (2006) (6)
Gender Inequality and Economic Development (1993) (6)
Beyond the male breadwinner: Life‐cycle living standards of intact and disrupted English working families, 1260–1850 (2020) (6)
The World Bank economic review 17 (2) (2000) (5)
Losing the Thread: A Response to Robert Allen (2020) (5)
CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION Amartya Sen talks with (2003) (5)
Rational Economic Families? Economics, the Family and the Economy (2000) (5)
Frontiers in the Economics of Gender (2011) (4)
The Gender Gap in Wages: Productivity or Prejudice or Market Power in Pursuit of Profits (2009) (4)
Working for a Living? Women and Children's Labour Inputs in England, 1260-1850 (2020) (4)
Girls and their families in an era of economic change (2020) (4)
Women in an Industrialising Society: England 1750–1880. By Jane Rendall, Oxford:Basil Blackwell, 1990. Pp. vi, 112. $8.95 (1991) (3)
The Economics of Equal Opportunities: Introduction (1995) (3)
Method, Materialism, and Marxist-Feminism: A Comment on Matthaei (1992) (3)
Symposium: Equal Opportunities and Employment Change in West European Economies (1998) (3)
The importance of gender ideology and identity: the shift to factory production and its effect on work and wages in the English textile industries, 1760-1850 (2011) (3)
Discussion Papers in Economic and Social (1998) (3)
Edith Tilton Penrose (2000) (2)
Child Labour: The Experience of Today's Advanced Economies and Lessons from the Past (2002) (2)
Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2015) (2)
The Work and Ideas of Amartya Sen: A Gender Perspective (2005) (2)
6. Lone Parenthood: An Economic Analysis (1993) (2)
Liberty's Dawn: A People's History of the Industrial Revolution by Emma Griffin (2014) (2)
Hard at Work in Factories and Mines. The Economics of Child Labor during the British Industrial Revolution . By Carolyn Tuttle. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. Pp. 308. $63.00. (2000) (2)
Occupational segregation in the UK: Report for the Equal Opportunities Unit (DGV), European Commission, Brussels (1992) (1)
Peter Kirby, Child Labour in Britain, 1750–1870, Basingstoke, Palgrave MacMillan, 2003. ix, 172. £16.50. 0 333 67193 7 hb. and 0 333 67194 5 pb (2004) (1)
Child Workers and Industrial Health in Britain, 1780–1850 by Peter Kirby (review) (2015) (1)
Cupidity and crime: consumption as revealed by insights from the Old Bailey records of thefts in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (2013) (1)
The Dilemmas of Lone Motherhood: Essays from Feminist Economics (2005) (1)
Gary Coyle / Paul McKinley / Jim Savage, Best Three Draw, Jane Humphries, Draíocht Arts Centre, Blanchardstown, March - May 2006 (2006) (1)
A Short History of the British Industrial Revolution. By Emma Griffin. (2013) (1)
Death and Gender in Victorian England (2008) (1)
Women and Credit in Pre-Industrial and Developing Societies. By William Chester Jordan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. Pp. 161. $28.95, cloth. (1994) (1)
Women as Mothers in Pre-Industrial England (1991) (1)
Child Labour in Historical Perspective 1800–1985. Case Studies from Europe, Japan and Colombia . Ed. by Hugh Cunningham and Pier Paolo Viazzo. UNICEF International Child Development Centre, Florence; Istituto degli Innocenti, Florence 1996. 105 pp. Ill. $9.00. (1997) (1)
Apprenticing in a Market Town: The Story of William Harding's Charity, Aylesbury, 1719-2000 (2007) (1)
Economic Thought (1994) (1)
Dilemmas of lone motherhood (2005) (1)
An Open Letter to the RRPE Special Issue on Women Collective (1980) (1)
Deirdre McCloskey, Bourgeois dignity: why economics can't explain the modern world (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Pp. xvi + 571. ISBN 9780226556741 Pbk. £14.50) (2013) (0)
C ONTINUING T HE C ONVERSATION (2003) (0)
The Lancashire Working Classes, c.1880–1930. By Trevor Griffiths. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2001. xi + 390 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN 0-199-24738-2 (2003) (0)
The First Industrial Woman. By Deborah Valenze · New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 251 pp. Charts, figures, notes, index, and bibliography. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-19-508981-2; paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-19-508982-0 (1996) (0)
IRISH ART: THE PARADOXICAL HOUSE/HOME (2008) (0)
The Childhood of the Poor: Welfare in Eighteenth-Century London. By Alysa Levene.Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. xii+250. $85.00. (2014) (0)
Reviews (2011) (0)
I Love You, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin, September - October 1995 (1995) (0)
Regions and Industries: A Perspective on the Industrial Revolution in Britain Edited by Pat Hudson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xiii, 277. $49.50 (1990) (0)
VictoriaBateman, The sex factor: How women made the West rich (Chichester: Wiley, 2019. Pp. v+248. ISBN 9781509526765 Hbk. $69.95) (2021) (0)
Women and Work (1987) (0)
Poverty, Progress, and Population (2004) (0)
From Subversion to Celebration: The Emergence of a domestic avant garde in contemporary Irish Art (2008) (0)
Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution, ed. Jeff Horn, Leonard Rosenband and Merritt Roe Smith (2013) (0)
Orphans of Empire: The Fate of London’s Foundlings by Helen Berry (review) (2020) (0)
Economic History Association Enclosures , Common Rights , and Women : The Proletarianization of Families in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (2007) (0)
Book Reviews (2005) (0)
Seven Go..., Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, January 1996 (1996) (0)
Book Review: Family and Business during the Industrial Revolution (2018) (0)
chairs or discussants at the 1996 Economic History Association meetings. (2016) (0)
The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective. Edited by Joel Mokyr · Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1993. xi + 362 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $58.00, ISBN 0-8133-8509-1; paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8133-8510-5 (1994) (0)
Rings of bright water. (1979) (0)
Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller, eds. Children in Slavery through the Ages . Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2009. vi + 234 pp. ISBN 978-0-8214-1876-5, $49.95 (cloth); 978-0-8214-1877-2, $19.95 (paper). (2011) (0)
Victorian Women, Unwed Mothers and the London Foundling Hospital by Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen, and: Narratives of Child Neglect in Romantic and Victorian Culture by Galia Benziman (review) (2015) (0)
Dublin I (Watching the Paint Dry) (1999) (0)
Continuing the conversation (with Amartya Sen) (2003) (0)
The feminization of the labor force and five associated myths (2021) (0)
SIMONTON, DEBORAH. A history of European women's work. 1700 to the present. Routledge, London [etc.] 1998. xii, 337 pp. £16.99. (2000) (0)
For Whose Sake (1997) (0)
Waists, health and history: obesity in nineteenth century Britain (2014) (0)
Book Reviews : The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tress ell New York: Monthly Review Press, 1979, 633 pp. $7.50 p (1980) (0)
MDY volume 17 issue 4 Cover and Back matter (2013) (0)
Julie-Marie Strange, Fatherhood and the British working class, 1865–1914 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. ix+234. ISBN 9781107446861 Hbk. £65.00) (2016) (0)
Book Review: Agents of Reform. Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State by Elisabeth Anderson (2022) (0)
The Business of Women: Female Enterprise and Urban Development in Northern England, 1760–1830. By Hannah Barker. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xi + 189 pp. Tables, illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 0-19-929971-4 (2008) (0)
ClaudiaGoldinCareer and Family: Women's Century‐Long Journey toward EquityPrinceton: Princeton University Press, 2022. pp. 344. ISBN 9780691201788 Hbk £22.00 (2022) (0)
Chapter 14. Death and Gender in Victorian England (2008) (0)
HANNAH BARKER AND DAVID HUGHES (eds.), Business and Family in the North of England during the Early Industrial Revolution: Records of the Lives of Men and Women in Trade, 1788–1832 (2021) (0)
Orphans of Empire: The Fate of London’s Foundlings. By Helen Berry (New York, Oxford University Press, 2019) 384 pp. $27.95 (2020) (0)
The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain 2 Volume Paperback Set (2014) (0)
Feeding the masses: plenty, want and the distribution of food and drink in historical perspective Editors' introduction (2008) (0)
'Marry - stitch - die - or do worse'?: female self-employment and small business proprietorship in London c.1740 - 1880. (2002) (0)
‘The Best Job in the World’: Breadwinning and the Capture of Household Labor in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century British Coalmining (2022) (0)
The Dreyfus Affair: A Woman's Affair (2016) (0)
World Bank Economic Review 17 (2), May 2003 (2003) (0)
Sons and mothers: family relations and sources of family income in early industrial Britain (2005) (0)
Book Reviews (1990) (0)
Passion and Obsession (2001) (0)
Clifford Collie, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, April 1995 (1995) (0)
Book Reviews (2003) (0)
Gender equality, growth, and how a technological trap destroyed female work (2021) (0)
Amartya Sen: A Biographical Note (2013) (0)
Modern Europe (1991) (0)
Childrenâ€™s work and Wages, 1270-1860 (2018) (0)
Book reviews (1979) (0)
Women and Children (2018) (0)
Dublin: Fergus Feehily at Green on Red (2003) (0)
GillianCookson, The age of machinery. Engineering the industrial revolution, 1770–1850 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2018. Pp. ix + 324. 1 fig. 1 map. 11 plates. ISBN 9781783272761 Pbk. £19.99) (2019) (0)
Dublin I (Space: The Final Frontier) (2000) (0)
Working-class women's diet and pregnancy in the long nineteenth century (2008) (0)
Thoughts on care of the elderly: a life worth living. (1975) (0)

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