An Analysis of Relationships on Domestic Service and Apprenticeship in The City of London, Based on Legal Records, 1672-1715

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10.2991/assehr.k.210519.256How to use a DOI?

Keywords

domestic service, apprenticeship, early modern England

Abstract

This research focuses on the relationship between masters/mistresses and their servants/apprentices in the city of London through the legal records from the Old Bailey Proceedings during the years of 1672 to 1715. Assorted by the categories of offense, the research will examine the relationship shown from either point of view. Previous studies, especially in the late 20th century, had concentrated on the life experience of young servants as apprentices in their masters’ households either in a shorter time interval (17-18th century) or through the whole early modern period, and the graphical scale is also different by authors. This research aims to explain the examined legal data by the failure of filling mutual expectations while attempts to draw an objective view on the master-employee relationship in the late 17th and early 18th century.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Kaiying Xin
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DA  - 2021/05/20
TI  - An Analysis of Relationships on Domestic Service and Apprenticeship in The City of London, Based on Legal Records, 1672-1715
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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