124448 20241125101150.0 doi 10.1017/S0212610922000167 sideral 132823 ART-2023-132823 eng Sarasúa, Carmen Nursing babies to fight poverty: wages of wet nurses of spanish foundling hospitals in the 18^th and 19^th centuries 2023 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted 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. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/AEI/HAR2017- 85601-C2-1-P info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 0.6 2023 HISTORY 58 / 525 = 0.11 2023 Q1 T1 HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES 22 / 42 = 0.524 2023 Q3 T2 ECONOMICS 466 / 600 = 0.777 2023 Q4 T3 0.896 2023 History 2023 Q1 Economics and Econometrics 2023 Q2 2.1 2023 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Erdozáin, Pilar Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-6806-5853 Hernández, Ricardo 4014 480 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Economía Aplicada Área Hª e Instituc.Económ. (2023), 1-29 Rev. hist. ecón. REVISTA DE HISTORIA ECONOMICA 0212-6109 612724 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/124448/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1298534 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/124448/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:124448 articulos driver 2024-11-22-12:06:15 ARTICLE