Women's Work and Rights in Early Modern Urban Europe

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.

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• Antropologia
• Economia do trabalho
• História económica
• Economia da organização industrial
• O feminismo e teoria feminista

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