8-2Occupations

HOW DID PEOPLE MAKE A LIVING IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND? WHAT WERE COMMON OCCUPATIONS IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND?
//Answered prepared by Maddie P.// In Elizabethan England jobs would usually be classified into two different groups, household or city jobs. In your house, normally, you would hire a group of people who would perform certain tasks for you such as feeding and tending to your baby, keeping track of investments, or keeping you healthy, tending to you. In the city it would be jobs and stores that would help run your everyday life.

According to Maggi Ros "Services and Occupations ." __Life in Elizabethan England a Compendium of Common Knowledge__//,// city jobs include things like a staplers, draper and a mercer. A stapler would be someone who buys and sells raw wool. A draper is someone who deal with cloth. Finally a mercer is someone who deals with anything corresponding to clothing. They would make clothing, sell clothing and fix clothing. Usually a fabric store would be near by a mercer.

The infamous house hold jobs included, wet doctor, nurse, steward, Man of business and tutor. A wet doctor would take care of your child until they were about two years old. A nurse is someone who takes care of infants and younger children. A steward would oversee the estate and how it is running. A man of business is someone who looks at your investments and is your accountant. Finally a tutor is someone who would teach your children, like a school teacher, from L.K. Alchin "Elizabethan England." __Elizabethan Occupations and Jobs.__

People in all classes, middle, upper and lower all had jobs. But, depending on what class you belonged to determined your job. Usually it was hard to find a job with constant hours and pay. Many farmed and sold their surplus so they usually wouldn’t need as much money for food but the cost of everyday living was steadily growing.

The lower class had the worst jobs because the upper class thought of them as lower and nobodies. They would have jobs such as chimney sweepers and rat catchers. They would only be able to trade pennies, a pound was out of reach for them. A typical job and wage for a lower and middle classman would include, a merchant who would receive about 100 pounds per annum and a carpenter would receive about 13 pounds per annum. The upper and occasionally the middle class would have the jobs with higher pay such as a laborer who received 1500 to 3000 pounds per annum, Wages were usually all over the board. For example a wage for one nobleman could be 1500 pounds and 5 pounds for another according to Maggi Ros "Services and Occupations ." __Life in Elizabethan England a Compendium of Common Knowledge.__

Jobs in Elizabethan England were important to the house and personal life. The city would usually take care of clothing and other necessities of everyday life, while the house takes jobs of childcare and health.

Works Cited: 1. Ros, Maggi. "Services and Occupations ." __Life in Elizabethan England a compendium of common knowledge__ 25 Mar 2008 10 Mar 2009  2. Alchin, L.K. . "Elizabethan England."__Elizabethan Occupations and Jobs__ 20 Mar 2008 10 Mar 2009 .