Nursing babies to fight poverty: Wages of wet nurses of Spanish foundling hospitals in the 18th and 19th centuries

Carmen Sarasúa; Pilar Erdozáin; Ricardo Hernández

doi:10.1017/S0212610922000167

Nursing babies to fight poverty: Wages of wet nurses of Spanish foundling hospitals in the 18th and 19th centuries

Carmen Sarasúa, Pilar Erdozáin, Ricardo Hernández

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Las inclusas o casas de expósitos se extendieron por toda Europa en los siglos XVIII y XIX, acogiendo a centenares de miles de niños cada año. En España, las casas de las principales ciudades llegaron a tener plantillas de más de 1.000 nodrizas, que trabajaban en su mayoría en sus localidades rurales de origen. Sus salarios monetarios fueron fundamentales para las economías más pobres, rurales y urbanas. Este artículo presenta una metodología para calcular los salarios de las nodrizas y explica su utilidad sobre los de otras ocupaciones de mujeres y hombres. Hemos construido series de salarios nominales y reales de nodrizas para toda España y calculado su contribución al ingreso de sus familias. Los salarios que estas instituciones públicas pagaban determinaron en gran medida la oferta de nodrizas y por tanto la supervivencia de los expósitos.

Idioma original	Inglés
Páginas (desde-hasta)	243-271
Número de páginas	29
Publicación	Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History
Volumen	41
N.º	2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0212610922000167
Estado	Publicada - 1 sept 2023

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estructura de la ocupación
nodrizas
salarios
economia del siglo XVIII
sector servicios
lactancia asalariada
trabajo de las mujeres

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