Household-level predictors of the presence of servants in Northern Orkney, Scotland, 1851–1901
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: 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.
Source: The History of the Family
Authors: Julia A. Jennings, James W. Wood1, Patricia L. Johnson2
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders: National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of State, Pennsylvania State University, National Institutes of Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
OpenAlex ID: W2090442064