Rational Choice and a Lifetime in Metal Mining: Employment Decisions by Nineteenth-Century Cornish Miners
| Autor: | Roger Burt, Sandra Kippen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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| Zdroj: | International Review of Social History. 46:45-75 |
| ISSN: | 1469-512X 0020-8590 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0020859001000037 |
| Popis: | This articles argues that it was primarily cash, rather than culture, that shaped employment decisions by Cornish miners in the mid-nineteenth century. Although their occupation cut their lives short, total lifetime earnings as a metal miner, at home or abroad, exceeded the probable income from readily available alternative employment, even over a longer working life. In economic terms, Cornish miners rationally sold part of their lives for both higher short- and long-term incomes. |
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