ABSTRACT This paper investigates wage inequalities among domestic workers in early modern Poltava (present day Ukraine), which was an important military-administrative of a Cossack Hetmanate, which was an autonomy within the Russian Empire. The data are derived from Rumyantsev census conducted between 1765 and 1769 (N = 1,109). While previous studies often measured domestic workers’ wages indirectly, this historical source contains direct information on their wages in rubles per year. The data suggest that age and social status shaped wages of domestic workers in early modern Ukraine. After the age of 29, wages of all domestic workers stagnated and after 40 wages declined significantly. However, male domestic workers of Cossack origin had higher wages when compared to peasantry, while median wages of married women were similar to that of peasant men, and young girls received higher wages than young boys. These findings open a room for a debate about economic power of male and female workers in early modern Ukraine on the dawn of the Russian Empire centralization.

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哥萨克地区的男性和女性家庭工人的工资：波尔塔瓦，1765年至1769年

摘要本文调查了现代波尔塔瓦（今乌克兰）的家庭工人之间的工资不平等现象，这是哥萨克继承人的重要军事行政机构，在俄罗斯帝国内部是自治的。数据来自1765年至1769年间进行的鲁缅采夫普查（N = 1,109）。虽然以前的研究经常间接地测量家庭工人的工资，但是这一历史资料直接包含了有关其工人每年卢布工资的信息。数据表明，年龄和社会地位决定了现代乌克兰早期家庭佣工的工资。29岁以后，所有家庭佣工的工资都停滞不前，而40工资下降了很多。但是，与农民相比，哥萨克血统的男性家庭工人的工资更高，已婚妇女的工资中位数与农民男子的工资相近，而年轻女孩的工资比年轻男孩高。这些发现为俄罗斯帝国主义中央集权之初的早期现代乌克兰男女工人的经济实力展开了辩论。