Salamancan servants in the 17th century (1601-1650): working conditions
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No 18 (2009), Articles
Submitted: 30-11-2012
Accepted: 30-11-2012
Abstract
The present article tries to approach us to the domestic servants labour conditions in Salamanca city –in the west of Spain- through the contracts and the testaments that can be found in the notarial documents. We handle aspects as the diversity of tasks to realize, the contracts duration, the penalizations for abandoning them, the cancellation motives or the relation between servants and masters within the limits of the job.
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domestic urban servants, contracts, Salamanca, Spain, Seventeenth Century
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