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Wage labour, wealth and the power of a database: unlocking communities of work outside urban guilds in Newcastle upon Tyne (2017)
Book Chapter
Burn, A. (2017). Wage labour, wealth and the power of a database: unlocking communities of work outside urban guilds in Newcastle upon Tyne. In J. Colson, & A. van Steensel (Eds.), Cities and Solidarities: Urban Communities in Pre-Modern Europe (169-187). Routledge

Seasonal work and welfare in an early industrial town: Newcastle upon Tyne, 1600-1700 (2017)
Journal Article
Burn, A. (2017). Seasonal work and welfare in an early industrial town: Newcastle upon Tyne, 1600-1700. Continuity and Change, 32(2), 157-182. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0268416017000182

The port of Newcastle upon Tyne in north-east England was transformed in the seventeenth century by the rapid expansion of its coal trade, which demanded an influx of industrial transport workers known as ‘keelmen’. This article assesses wages, perks... Read More about Seasonal work and welfare in an early industrial town: Newcastle upon Tyne, 1600-1700.