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Making a Living, Making a Difference: Gender and Work in Early Modern European Society

By Maria Agren

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
019024061X, 9780190240615, 9780190240653, 0190240652
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5647354 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
274\273
Time added
2017-04-22 03:00:00
Labor;Europe;History;Sexual division of labor;Euro

Description

'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

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