NURSING BABIES TO FIGHT POVERTY: WAGES OF WET NURSES OF SPANISH FOUNDLING HOSPITALS IN THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES

IF 0.6 2区 历史学 Q4 ECONOMICS
C. Sarasúa, P. Erdozáin, Ricardo Hernández
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ABSTRACT Foundling hospitals spread across Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries, taking in hundreds of thousands of children each year. In Spain, the hospitals of major cities had staffs of more than 1,000 external wet nurses, who worked mainly in rural localities. Their cash wages were key for the household economies of the poor rural and urban populations. This article presents a methodology to interpret wet-nurse wages and explains their utility with respect to other occupations for men and women. Our results include a series of nominal and real wages for wet nurses and a calculation of their contributions to family income. The level of wages these institutions could offer was a major determinant in the supply of wet-nurse labour.
护理婴儿与贫困作斗争:18世纪和19世纪西班牙弃婴医院奶妈的工资
摘要18世纪和19世纪,弃婴医院遍布欧洲,每年接收数十万儿童。在西班牙,主要城市的医院有1000多名外部奶妈,他们主要在农村地区工作。他们的现金工资是农村和城市贫困人口家庭经济的关键。本文提出了一种解释奶妈工资的方法,并解释了其对男性和女性其他职业的效用。我们的研究结果包括一系列奶妈的名义和实际工资,以及他们对家庭收入的贡献计算。这些机构所能提供的工资水平是奶妈劳动力供应的一个主要决定因素。
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