Staying or Leaving: A Female Seasonal Labour Market in Early Modern Spain (1640–1690)

Gabriel Jover-Avellà () and Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora ()
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Gabriel Jover-Avellà: University of Girona
Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora: Open University of Catalonia & Center for Demographic Studies-Autonomous University of Barcelona

Chapter Chapter 7 in Gender and Migration in Historical Perspective, 2022, pp 215-262 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This study seeks to analyse the factors that determined women’s intense participation in seasonal (harvesting) migration in the Mediterranean region, through the case study of Majorca throughout the preindustrial period. To this effect, inequality in access to land and cereal agriculture explain the origin of women olive pickers. However, the link between inequality, agricultural specialization and migration is not entirely straightforward. Economic power and information networks based on landlords’, stewards’ and foremen’s places of birth and the information chains through shepherds, servants and other rural workers, the means by which landowners and female gatherers knew about labour supply and demand and working conditions, may also have determined the migratory decision.

Keywords: Seasonal migration; Inequality in access to land; Female labour force; Labour market; information networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-99554-6_7

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