Overview
- Combines a macro-analytical approach (discussion of historical thesis and models) with a micro-narrative approach (case-studies and life-stories)
- Highlights the need for further research on women’s working opportunities
- Investigates 'female' occupations from domestic service to prostitution
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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 proposes a critical overview of the most recent historical research on women’s roles in economic urban activities. Covering a wide area of early modern Europe, from Portugal to Poland and from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, Bellavitis presents an overview of the economic rights of women – property, inheritance, management of their wealth, access to the guilds, access to education – and assesses the evolution of female work in different urban contexts.
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Keywords
- Women's work in Early Modern European Cities
- Feminist economics
- Women in history
- Women in business
- Gender of work
- Women's rights in the early modern period
- Silk industry
- Economics of prostitution
- Querelle des femmes
- Industrialisation
- Women and globalisation
- Female guilds
- Female occupations
- Proto-industry
- Urban economics
- feminist anthropology
Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Women, Work, Rights and the City
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Women’s Jobs
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Workshops and Markets
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Anna Bellavitis is Professor of Early Modern History at Rouen University in Normandy, France and Senior Member of the University Institute of France. Her research concentrates on family and gender history, urban history and citizenship and labour history.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women’s Work and Rights in Early Modern Urban Europe
Authors: Anna Bellavitis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96541-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96540-6Published: 09 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07210-0Published: 13 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96541-3Published: 09 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 266
Topics: Economic History, Feminist Anthropology, Labor Economics, Industrial Organization, European Economics