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Making a Living, Making a Difference - Gender and Work in Early Modern European Society (Hardcover)
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Making a Living, Making a Difference - Gender and Work in Early Modern European Society (Hardcover)
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What do people do all day? What did women and men do to make a
living in early modern Europe, and what did their work mean? As
this book shows, the meanings depended both on the worker and on
the context. With an innovative analytic method that is yoked to a
specially-built database of source materials, this book revises
many received opinions about the history of gender and work in
Europe. The applied verb-oriented method finds the 'work verbs'
that appear incidentally in a wide variety of early modern sources
and then analyzes the context in which they appear. By tying
information technologies and computer-assisted analysis to the
analytic powers - both quantitative and qualitative - of
professional historians, the method gets much closer to a
participatory observation of the micro-patterns of early modern
life than was once believed possible. It directly addresses a
number of broad problems often debated by historians of gender and
early modern Europe. First, it discusses the problem of assessing
more accurately the incidence, character and division of work.
Second, it analyzes the configurations of work and human
difference. Third, it deals with the extent to which work practices
created notions of difference - gender difference but also other
forms of difference - and, conversely, to what extent work
practices contributed to notions of sameness and gender
convergence. Finally, it studies the impact of processes of change.
Drawing on sources from Sweden, the authors show the importance of
multiple employment, the openness of early modern households, the
significance of marriage and marital status, the gendered nature of
specific tasks, and the ways in which state formation and
commercialization were entangled in people's everyday lives.
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