Women's Work and Rights in Early Modern Urban Europe

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Bellavitis, Anna (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Economic history.; Feminist anthropology.; Labor economics.; Industrial organization.; Europe-Economic conditions.; Economic History.; Feminist Anthropology.; Labor Economics.; Industrial Organization.; European Economics.

In the last decades, women's role in the workforce has dramatically changed, though gender inequality persists and for women, gender identity still prevails over work identity. It is important not to forget or diminish the historical role of women in the labour market though and this book propo...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I: Women, Work, Rights and the City
• Chapter 1: Women have Always Worked
• Chapter 2: The Gender of Work
• Chapter 3: Working Daughters, Wives, Mothers, Sisters, Widows
• Chapter 4: The "Decline Thesis" and the Guilds: An "Accordion Movement"?
• Chapter 5: From Globalisation to Industrialisation
• Chapter 6: Agency and Capabilities: North vs South?
• Chapter 7: The Right to Learn, the Right to Teach: Intellectual and Artistic Work as a Profession
• Part II: Women's Jobs
• Chapter 8: Servants and Slaves
• Chapter 9: Caring and Feeding
• Chapter 10: Midwives
• Chapter 11: Bodies as Resources
• Part III: Workshops and Markets
• Chapter 12: Learning at Home and on the Shop Floor
• Chapter 13: Women, Families and Guilds: the French Exception
• Chapter 14: Silk and Skill
• Chapter 15: Printed Tracks
• Chapter 16: In the Marketplace
• Chapter 17: International Traders
• Part IV: Conclusions
• Chapter 18: Conclusions and Suggestions for Further Research.