Was it hard to get a job during the elizabethan era!?

Question

please help doing this for a english report... if anysites u know of will help me to.. any but
http://www.elizabthean-era.org
any but that please!
Thank you all alot!!

Answer 1

Lost Country Life by Dorothy Hartley provides good overview of English agricultural life/customs/activities from around 1400s to about start of Jacobean period. Life in Elizabethean Days by William Stearns Davis, while quite an elderly book, is interesting read and talks about work in various industries, which may give you some starting points.
Things to consider: (1) Did the labor shortages triggered by the Black Death (bubonic plague) outbreaks in the 1400s still have an impact at this time? (2) England was a major wool-producing nation around this time: what impact did "enclosure" of lands have on everyday farmers? (Why did Sir Thomas More, a few years earlier, talk about sheep "eating up widows and children"?) (3) Did the official change in religion---from the Catholic England of the early 1500s to the Protestantism of Henry VIII, Elizabeth's father---have any impact on where people worked or who they worked for? Did people still have to keep non-meat days during Lent, and would this affect England's fishing trade?

Hope these give you some ideas on handling your report. Good luck!

Answer 2

Well, there were few Jews in Elizabethan England because they had all been expelled from the country in the 13th century, during the reign of Edward I. They were viewed with suspicion because of their different religion and customs. The same was true in other countries in this period, though there was more tolerance for Jewish communities in some countries than in others, But in an age that took religion very seriously, anyone not practising the accepted faith of the country was liable to be viewed with suspicion. Jews kept to their own faith and their own customs, and this made them vulnerable to persecution.

Answer 3

It's only been recently that men stopped following in their father's footsteps. Women stayed home. Back then, the oldest son inherited the home and land and occupation. Younger sons became soldiers or priests or became apprenticed to trades. Some continued to live in the family home and helped run the farm or ranch or whatever the family business was.

Answer 4

Not any different than other times except maybe the Great
American Depression