Remuneraciónes - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:07:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Remuneraciónes - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Types of bequests to servants by prebendaries in Murcia (1702-1817) https://historylab.es/types-of-bequests-to-servants-by-prebendaries-in-murcia-1702-1817/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=types-of-bequests-to-servants-by-prebendaries-in-murcia-1702-1817 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:46 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/tipos-de-los-legados-a-los-sirvientes-por-parte-de-los-prebendados-en-murcia-1702-1817/ Remuneration of servants, in cash or in kind, of Murcian prebendaries during the 18th and early 19th centuries

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]]> One of the fundamental questions surrounding the figure of domestic service is whether it was paid or rewarded. The example of Murcia during the 18th century is used to answer this question. The households of ecclesiastics were not “normal” households, while at the same time establishing certain characteristics typical of family structures run by secular clerics: they were households without a conjugal nucleus, with servants and relatives, and with a predominance of the female element. Domestic service, after all, was the main employment route for urban women workers. Remuneration in domestic service had different characteristics: wage differentials for different situations, the importance of remuneration in kind, lower nominal wages compared to real wages or irregularity of payment. Consequently, two of the key facts were, with regard to wages, that money occupied a small part in the remuneration of servants’ work, so that in many cases there was no more than payment in kind. 35% of the servants’ masters were left owing certain amounts at their death, 15% received exact payments while 50% made no mention of the matter. The complexity of the subject has led us to consider three categories: exclusively monetary, monetary with other types of goods and only goods, ignoring the cases in which ecclesiastics left their servants as heirs.

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