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  title info:
    title: Women, Work and Colonialism in the Netherlands and Java
    sub title: Comparisons, Contrasts, and Connections, 1830-1940
  name:
    name part: van Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 283 p. 23 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 'This book makes an important contribution to the history of household labour relations in two contrasting societies. It deserves a wide readership.' -Anne Booth, SOAS University of London, UK 'By exploring how colonialism affected women's work in the Dutch Empire this carefully researched book urges us to rethink the momentous implications of colonial exploitation on gender roles both in periphery and metropolis.' -Ulbe Bosma, the Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands 'In this exciting and original book, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk exposes how colonial connections helped determine the status and position of women in both the Netherlands and Java. The effects of these connections continue to shape women's lives in both colony and metropole today.' -Jane Humphries, University of Oxford, UK Recent postcolonial studies have stressed the importance of the mutual influences of colonialism on both colony and metropole. This book studies such colonial entanglements and their effects by focusing on developments in household labour in the Dutch Empire in the period 1830-1940. The changing role of households', and particularly women's, economic activities in the Netherlands and Java, one of the most important Dutch colonies, forms an excellent case study to help understand the connections and disparities between colony and metropole. The author contends that colonial entanglements certainly existed, and influenced developments in women's economic role to an extent, both in Java and the Netherlands. However, during the nineteenth century, more and more distinctions in the visions and policies towards Dutch working class and Javanese peasant households emerged. Accordingly, a more sophisticated framework is needed to explain how and why such connections were - both intentionally and unintentionally - severed over time.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Introduction. Women's work in the Netherlands and Java, 1830-1940 -- Chapter 2: An exceptional empire? Dutch colonialism in comparative perspective -- Chapter 3: Industrious women in an imperial economy: The Cultivation System and its consequences -- Chapter 4: Industrialisation, de-industrialisation, and women's work: Textile production in the Dutch Empire -- Chapter 5: Contrasting consumption: Household income and living standards in the Netherlands and Java, 1870-1940 -- Chapter 6: Norms and social policies: Women's and child labour legislation and education -- Chapter 7: Conclusions: Women's work and divergent development in the Dutch Empire.
  note: by Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk.
  subject:
    topic: Economic history
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism
  subject:
    topic: Culture-Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Labor-History
  subject:
    topic: Labor economics
  subject:
    topic: Education-Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Economic History
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism and Colonialism
  subject:
    topic: Gender and Economics
  subject:
    topic: Labor History
  subject:
    topic: Labor Economics
  subject:
    topic: Education Economics
  classification: HC
  classification: 330.9
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
  identifier: 9783030105280
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10528-0
  record info:
    record creation date: 190507
    record change date: 20191025192326.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-10528-0