Ebook: Making a Living, Making a Difference: Gender and Work in Early Modern European Society
Author: Maria Agren
- Tags: Labor, Europe, History, Sexual division of labor, Europe, History, Women, Employment, Europe, History, Europe, History, 1492-, Europe, Social conditions, Labor, Sexual division of labor, Social conditions, Women, Employment, Europe
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: ,
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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'Making a Living, Making a Difference' offers an eye-opening perspective on what men and women in early modern European society did all day. Based on an innovative method and a large data collection of everyday activities, the authors show the ways in which gender and work were linked in early modern society by revealing household, unpaid, and hidden, as well as paid, labour.
Abstract: 'Making a Living, Making a Difference' offers an eye-opening perspective on what men and women in early modern European society did all day. Based on an innovative method and a large data collection of everyday activities, the authors show the ways in which gender and work were linked in early modern society by revealing household, unpaid, and hidden, as well as paid, labour