Women And Work In Preindustrial Europe
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Author | : Barbara Hanawalt |
Publisher | : Bloomington : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
The working women in this volume represent a wide diversity of stations in life, ranging from slaves and servants to respectable widows and professional midwives. Through a variety of sources including notarial records, wills, contracts, private account books, and city, manorial, and state court records, their work patterns come to life. The women studied lived in Ragusa (Dubrovnik), Florence, Lyon and Montpellier, Exeter and rural England, Cologne, Leiden, and Nuremberg. With such a variety of work experiences, locations, and centuries separating their lives, a remarkable continuity of circumstances and options nevertheless emerges.
Author | : Lindsey Charles |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0415623014 |
This book surveys women and work in English society before its transition to industrial capitalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The time span of the book from 1300 to 1800 allows comparison of women’s work patterns across various phases of economic and social organisation. It was originally published in 1985. Several important themes are highlighted throughout the individual contributions in the book. The most significant is the association between home and work. Not only was trade and manufacture in the pre-industrial period carried out in close proximity to domestic life, many household activities also overlapped with commercial ones. The second key theme is the importance of the local social and economic environment in shaping the nature and extent of women’s work. The book also demonstrates the similarity between certain aspects of women’s work before and after industrialisation. The industrial revolution may have made sexual divisions of labour more apparent but their origins lie firmly in the pre-industrial period.
Author | : Deborah Simonton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113493677X |
The work patterns of European women from 1700 onwards fluctuate in relation to ideological, demographic, economic and familial changes. In A History of European Women's Work, Deborah Simonton draws together recent research and methodological developments to take an overview of trends in women's work across Europe from the so-called pre-industrial period to the present. Taking the role of gender and class in defining women's labour as a central theme, Deborah Simonton compares and contrasts the pace of change between European countries, distinguishing between Europe-wide issues and local developments.
Author | : Daryl M. Hafter |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0271047593 |
Author | : Daryl M. Hafter |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Industries |
ISBN | : 9780253209436 |
Essays examine key 18th- and 19th-century industries, including spinning, weaving, calico painting, and the lingerie trade. Focusing on links between women's preindustrial craft production and heavy industrialization, this volume shows how women adopted or rejected new technology in various situations, helping maintain social peace during profound economic dislocation.
Author | : Merry E. Wiesner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Martha C. Howell |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2009-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226355063 |
In this bold reinterpretation of Women's changing labor status during the late medieval and early modern period, Martha C. Howell argues that women's work was the product of the intersection of two systems, one cultural and one economic. Howell shows forcefully that patriarchal family structure, not capitalist development per se, was a decisive factor in determining women's work. Women could enjoy high labor status if they worked within a family production unit or if their labor did not interfere with their domestic responsibilities or threaten male control of a craft or trade.
Author | : Anne Jacobson Schutte |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 2001-08-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1935503723 |
This collection offers a variety of approaches to aspects of women’s lives. It moves beyond men’s prescriptive pronouncements about female nature to women's lived experiences, replacing the singular woman with plural women and illuminating female agency. The contributors show that women’s lives changed over the life course and differed according to region and social class. They also demonstrate that in the early modern period the largely private spaces in women’s lives were not enclosed worlds isolated from the public spaces in which men operated. Contributors to this important collection are leading international scholars and offer strong, substantial, and archival-based research.
Author | : Patricia Branca |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2013-05-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136242996 |
In dealing with the common experience of women in modern society, this book provides a deeper insight into European women at work, at home, at leisure and in their political and educational functions. Particular emphasis is placed upon the significant cultural differences between women of various classes and nationalities. The first chapters of the book trace the growing importance of women’s work in the economic sector and for modernisation in general. Data from a wide variety of sources, including census figures, government and labour reports and personal accounts, illustrate that women have integrated work roles into a complex life style. The new image of women in society is analysed in the light of the numerous educational, political and legal reforms which took place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and the impact of feminist ideology is discussed in relation to this. In its overall presentation this book, first published in 1978, illustrates the importance of the history of women not only for an understanding of the female experience but also the process of modernisation in Western Europe in general.
Author | : Catharina Lis |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 678 |
Release | : 2012-07-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 900423277X |
In Worthy Efforts Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly offer an innovative approach to the history of perceptions and representations of work in Europe throughout Classical Antiquity and the medieval and early modern periods.