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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.

Crises in Economic and Social History: A Comparative Perspective (2015)
Book
Brown, A., Burn, A., & Doherty, R. (Eds.). (2015). Crises in Economic and Social History: A Comparative Perspective. Boydell Press

This collection of essays brings together historians examining social and economic crises from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. Crisis is an almost ubiquitous concept for historians, applicable across (amongst others) the histories of agri... Read More about Crises in Economic and Social History: A Comparative Perspective.