0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour

Buy Now

Making a Living, Making a Difference - Gender and Work in Early Modern European Society (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,065
Discovery Miles 40 650
Making a Living, Making a Difference - Gender and Work in Early Modern European Society (Hardcover): Maria Agren

Making a Living, Making a Difference - Gender and Work in Early Modern European Society (Hardcover)

Maria Agren

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R4,065 Discovery Miles 40 650 | Repayment Terms: R381 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days

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.

General

Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 2017
Editors: Maria Agren (Professor of History)
Dimensions: 240 x 158 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-024061-5
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Promotions
LSN: 0-19-024061-X
Barcode: 9780190240615

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Frans Barker's The South African labour…
D. Yu, P Roos Paperback R817 Discovery Miles 8 170
Beyond the Cubicle - Job Insecurity…
Allison J. Pugh Hardcover R4,066 Discovery Miles 40 660
Border Lives - Fronterizos…
Sergio Chavez Hardcover R4,051 Discovery Miles 40 510
Honours versus Money - The Economics of…
Bruno S. Frey, Jana Gallus Hardcover R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210
Welfare and Work in the Open Economy…
Fritz W. Scharpf, Vivien A. Schmidt Hardcover R6,369 Discovery Miles 63 690
Society, Work and Welfare in Europe
Christine Cousins Hardcover R5,013 Discovery Miles 50 130
Husbandry to Housewifery - Women…
Joanna Bourke Hardcover R1,860 Discovery Miles 18 600
Labour at War - France and Britain…
John N. Horne Hardcover R4,665 Discovery Miles 46 650
For the Family? - How Class and Gender…
Sarah Damaske Hardcover R4,448 Discovery Miles 44 480
Encore Adulthood - Boomers on the Edge…
Phyllis Moen Hardcover R3,868 Discovery Miles 38 680
Market, Class, and Employment
Patrick McGovern, Stephen Hill, … Hardcover R5,449 Discovery Miles 54 490
Sustaining the Nation - The Making and…
Monica Heller, Lindsay A. Bell, … Hardcover R4,057 Discovery Miles 40 570

See more

Partners