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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      09 June 2023
      15 June 2023
      ISBN:
      9781009359344
      9781009359351
      9781009359368
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009359344
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 242 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.36kg, 242 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Economic History
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Economic History
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    Advocating a gender-inclusive approach to the history of work, this book both counts and accounts for women's as well as men's economic activity. Showcasing novel conceptual, methodological and empirical perspectives, it highlights the transformative potential of including women's work in wider assessments of continuity and change in economic performance. Focusing on the period of European history (1500-1800) that generated unprecedented growth in the northwest – which, in turn, was linked to the global redistribution of resources and upon which industrialisation depended – the book spans key arenas in which women produced change: households, care, agriculture, rural manufacture, urban markets, migration, and war. The analysis refutes the stubborn contention of mainstream economic history that we can generalise about economic performance by focusing solely on the work of adult men and demonstrates that women were active agents in the early modern economy rather than passively affected by changes wrought upon them.

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    ‘A holistic treatment of the early modern European economy.’

    Tim Reinke-Williams Source: Cultural and Social History

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