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Afxentiadis, D E (2010) Interpreting a major event organization's efforts to reliably manage information security risks: the case of the Athens 2004 Olympics, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).
Barros de Oliveira, N R (2013) A theory of coordination voids in dynamic inter-organisational relationships: a study of social housing projects in England, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).
Bowers, R (2019) Gendered economies of extraction: seeking permanence amidst the rubble of Bengaluru's construction industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).
Cho, Y (2000) The Korean housebuilding industry: aspects of growth, efficiency and diversification, 1980-1995, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).
Eccles, T S (2009) The English building industry in late modernity: an empirical investigation of the definition, construction and meaning of profession, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).
Morton, C N (1979) Collective bargaining in building and civil engineering: a case study of three major re-development protects in the City of London, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).
Stephenson, J (2015) The organisation of work and wages in the London building trades in the long eighteenth century, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).
- Type: Thesis
- Keywords: craft; economic indicator; England; Europe; industrialisation; land; London; organisational change; wages
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- URL: https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.906q4ohip8mt
- Abstract:
The wage data that economic historians rely on for calculating key economic indicators and living standards across Europe are all derived from records of building craftsmen and labourers’ pay. Existing series suggest wages in London were substantially higher than in other European centres from 1650 to 1800, and current accepted theories ascribe Britain’s early industrialisation to the products and incentives of this wage structure. But the period after the Restoration was one of prodigious building in London, and of organisational change in the construction trades. This thesis examines the contractual and organisational context in which building craftsmen and labourers operated and shows that the nature of the ‘day rates’ used to construct wage series in London and England has been misunderstood. As a result, wages and real wages have been overstated for England throughout the long eighteenth century.
Thiel, D J (2005) Builders: the social organisation of a construction site, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).
Watson, H B (1975) Organizational bases of professional status: a comparative study of the engineering profession, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).