Faculty Postholders
Professor Jane Humphries
M.A., Ph.D.
Professor of Economic History
Email: jane.humphries@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
Jane Humphries has worked on many issues to do with growth and development and also has a longstanding interest in labour markets. She has published extensively on gender, the family and the history of women's work. Her main current research interest is in the relationship between the family and the economy in the past and in the present. She is currently working on child labour in the British industrial revolution.
Selected Publications:
- 'Enclosures, Common Rights and Women: The Proletarianization of Families in late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Century Britain', Journal of Economic History. Vol L, No. 1 (1990) pp. 17-42
- 'An Input-Output Table for 1841', Economic History Review. Vol XLVII, No.3 (1994) pp. 545-566
- 'Women's Labour Force Participation and the Transition to the Male Breadwinner Family, 1790-1865', The Economic History Review. Vol XLVIII (1995) pp. 89-117
- 'Economics, Gender and Equal Opportunities' in The Economics of Equal Opportunities. (Manchester, 1995) pp. 55-86
- 'Female-headed Households in Early Industrial Britain: the Vanguard of the Proletariat', Labour History Review. Vol 63 (1998) pp. 31-65
- 'Stature and Relative Deprivation: Female-headed Households in the Industrial Revolution', Continuity and Change. Vol 13 (1998) pp. 73-115
- 'Towards a 'Family-friendly' Economics?', New Political Economy. Vol 13 (1998) pp. 223-240
- 'Cliometrics, Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution: A Review Essay on 'Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution' by Clark Nardinelli', Critical Review. Vol 13 (1999) pp. 269-283
- 'Destined for Deprivation: Human Capital Formation and Intergenerational Poverty in Nineteenth-Century England.', Explorations in Economic History. Vol 38 (3) (2001) pp. 339-365
- 'Female-headship in Eastern Sri Lanka: A Comparative Study of Ethnic Communities in the Context of Conflict', In Focus, Programme in Crisis, Response and Reconstruction,. Vol Working Paper 10 (2003) pp. 1-32
- 'Edith Penrose: Feminist Economist?', Feminist Economics. Vol 9 (2003) pp. 47-74
- 'Child Labor: Lessons from the Historical Experience of Today's Industrial Economies ', The World Bank Economic Review. Vol 17(2) (2003) pp. 175-196
- (ed.) Amartya Sen's work and Idea A Gender Perspective . Vol 9 (London , 2003) 3-15 321-355 pp.
- 'The Parallels between the Past and the Present' in International Labor Standards. (Oxford, 2003) pp. 84-98
- 'Child Labour in the Industrial Revolution' in Experiencing Wages. (2003)
- 'English Apprenticeship: A Neglected Factor in the First Industrial Revolution' in Economic Challenges of the 21st Century in Historical Perspective. (2003)
- 'Standard of Living, Quality of Life' in Blackwell's Companion to Nineteenth Century History. (Oxford, 2003) pp. 238-67
- 'Mundane Heroines: Conflict, Ethnicity, Gender, and Female Headship in Eastern Sri Lanka', Feminist Economics. Vol 10.2 (2004) pp. 173-205
- 'Household Economy' in Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain. Volume 1: Industrialisation, 1700-1860. Vol 1 (Cambridge, 2004) pp. 238-267
- Amartya Sen's work and ideas. A Gender Perspective. (Abingdon Oxford, 2005)
- Dilemmas of Lone Motherhood. (Abingdon Oxford, 2005)
- 'Excess Female Mortality in Nineteenth -Century England and Wales: A Regional Analysis', Social Science History. Vol 29(4) (2005) pp. 649-681
Future Publications:
- Through the Mill: Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution. (Cambridge, 2007)
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