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Feminist scholars have long pointed out the relevance of the unpaid
work that goes on within European households in sustaining the
well-being of the continent's populations. However, care work and
domestic labour continue to be largely unremunerated and unequally
distributed by gender. This unique volume of interdisciplinary
essays casts new light on the roles that households play in
securing the well-being of individuals and families, uncovering the
processes of bargaining and accommodation, and conflict and
compromise that underpin them. Contributors put gender at the
centre of their analyses, demonstrating the uneven experiences of
men and women as both providers and receivers of welfare in
European households, in both the past and the present. As European
states grapple with changing family forms, a growing population of
dependent people, increased participation of women in labour
markets and a profound shift in the nature and organisation of
work, this book makes a timely contribution to our understanding of
the critical role played by households in mediating processes of
economic and social change. It offers new challenges to scholars,
researchers and policy makers eager to address gender inequalities
and enhance well-being. This book is the second of four volumes
being published as part of Ashgate's 'Gender and Well-Being' series
that arise from a programme of international symposia funded by the
European Science Foundation under the auspices of COST (European
Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research).
Feminist scholars have long pointed out the relevance of the unpaid
work that goes on within European households in sustaining the
well-being of the continent's populations. However, care work and
domestic labour continue to be largely unremunerated and unequally
distributed by gender. This unique volume of interdisciplinary
essays casts new light on the roles that households play in
securing the well-being of individuals and families, uncovering the
processes of bargaining and accommodation, and conflict and
compromise that underpin them. Contributors put gender at the
centre of their analyses, demonstrating the uneven experiences of
men and women as both providers and receivers of welfare in
European households, in both the past and the present. As European
states grapple with changing family forms, a growing population of
dependent people, increased participation of women in labour
markets and a profound shift in the nature and organisation of
work, this book makes a timely contribution to our understanding of
the critical role played by households in mediating processes of
economic and social change. It offers new challenges to scholars,
researchers and policy makers eager to address gender inequalities
and enhance well-being. This book is the second of four volumes
being published as part of Ashgate's 'Gender and Well-Being' series
that arise from a programme of international symposia funded by the
European Science Foundation under the auspices of COST (European
Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research).
Property is central to any historical analyses of production,
reproduction and consumption. It lies at the heart of discussions
of material culture, class relations and the household economy.
Recent work has begun to look beyond the acquisition and possession
of goods to examine what the disposal, transmission and giving of
property might tell us about changing society and culture. This
landmark collection of articles represents a wide range of
approaches to and perspectives on the ownership, use and
transmission of property in eighteenth and nineteenth-century
towns. An introductory essay highlights the importance of property
and inheritance in shaping social, cultural, economic and political
structures and interactions within and between towns and cities.
Writing from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, the
contributors then explore in detail the changing meaning of
property to households and individuals; the social, economic and
geographical contexts of inheritance practices; the geography of
wealth; the role of gender in shaping property relations and,
perhaps above all, the enduring link between property, the family
and the household in urban contexts.
Property is central to any historical analyses of production,
reproduction and consumption. It lies at the heart of discussions
of material culture, class relations and the household economy.
Recent work has begun to look beyond the acquisition and possession
of goods to examine what the disposal, transmission and giving of
property might tell us about changing society and culture. This
landmark collection of articles represents a wide range of
approaches to and perspectives on the ownership, use and
transmission of property in eighteenth and nineteenth-century
towns. An introductory essay highlights the importance of property
and inheritance in shaping social, cultural, economic and political
structures and interactions within and between towns and cities.
Writing from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, the
contributors then explore in detail the changing meaning of
property to households and individuals; the social, economic and
geographical contexts of inheritance practices; the geography of
wealth; the role of gender in shaping property relations and,
perhaps above all, the enduring link between property, the family
and the household in urban contexts.
Brings together over thirty of the leading scholars in Post
Medieval archaeology and examines how this relatively new
discipline has developed and where it is going. The impetus for
this volume lies in the expansion of interest in Post Medieval
archaeology in university, commercial, and voluntary sectors. The
study of Post Medieval archaeology is a relatively new discipline
but, within archaeology as a whole, it represents one of the
fastest growing areas of study. Archaeologists seek to avoid the
fragmentation of a still small discipline into subfields such as
pre-1750 post-medieval archaeology, post-1750 industrial
archaeology, or the incorporation of theory as somehow outside of
the purview of the work of the older organisations. This important
and timely volume brings together articles that consider the
commonalties between approaches as well as the unique contributions
made by members of each organisation towards the study of the
material heritage of the post-1550 period. The chapters in the
volume derive from a well-attended three day conference held at the
University of Leicester in April 2008 and sponsored by the Society
for Post-medieval Archaeology, the Association for Industrial
Archaeology, and the Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group. The aim
of the discussion-focused conference was to foster enhanced
understanding and cooperation between the organisations and their
approaches; with in-depth consideration of the future of the
broader field of historical archaeology. The volume will bring the
debatefrom the conference to a wider academic, professional, and
vocational audience and, it is anticipated, will act as a benchmark
by which future development will be judged.
The book provides a detailed review of efforts to reform the law on
insurance warranties in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, arguing
that none of these have been successful. The text proposes a
radical new approach to reform of this area of the law,
demonstrating through detailed stress testing of these proposals
that they would deliver more consistent and equitable outcomes than
those achieved to date. Reform of the historically inequitable law
of insurance warranties in commercial insurance has been introduced
in Australia, New Zealand and, most recently, the UK. This book
demonstrates that all these reforms have flaws and that none of
them can be relied upon to deliver consistently equitable and
predictable outcomes; in particular the UK's, as yet largely
untested, Insurance Act 2015 is shown to have serious flaws that
have not previously been identified. Building on lessons from these
three jurisdictions, the book sets out an alternative approach for
dealing with breaches of insurance warranties and demonstrates that
this would consistently deliver better outcomes than any of the
existing attempts at reforming this area of the law. Providing an
unprecedented multi-jurisdictional review of the law on insurance
warranties and in particular the treatment of warranties in the
Insurance Act 2015, as well as outlining an innovative and radical
alternative approach to reform, the book will be of considerable
interest and value to practitioners, academics and students, as
well as to other common law jurisdictions contemplating reform of
this area of the law.
Looking at women, business and finance in the long nineteenth
century, this book challenges our traditional understanding of
'separate spheres'--whereby men operated in the public world of
work and women in the private realm of the domestic. Drawing on
case studies throughout Europe, the authors reveal that there was
much greater diversity in women's economic experience across all
social strata than has previously been understood. International
contributors take a new look at women's roles in finance and
investment, family-owned businesses, retailing, service activities,
and the artisanal trades. They reveal that elite and middle-class
women often manipulated financial resources in a highly
sophisticated manner. Family-owned businesses and retail trade
geared to women, such as grocery and fashion, also offered women
opportunities. Throughout, the authors consider the impact of
industrialization on women's economic agency. We learn about women
in the accommodation business in London, female entrepreneurs in
Italy, prostitutes in Germany, family businesses in Sweden, women
in publishing in Spain and much more.
Looking at women, business and finance in the long nineteenth
century, this book challenges our traditional understanding of
'separate spheres'--whereby men operated in the public world of
work and women in the private realm of the domestic. Drawing on
case studies throughout Europe, the authors reveal that there was
much greater diversity in women's economic experience across all
social strata than has previously been understood.International
contributors take a new look at women's roles in finance and
investment, family-owned businesses, retailing, service activities,
and the artisanal trades. They reveal that elite and middle-class
women often manipulated financial resources in a highly
sophisticated manner. Family-owned businesses and retail trade
geared to women, such as grocery and fashion, also offered women
opportunities. Throughout, the authors consider the impact of
industrialization on women's economic agency. We learn about women
in the accommodation business in London, female entrepreneurs in
Italy, prostitutes in Germany, family businesses in Sweden, women
in publishing in Spain and much more.
The history of welfare provision has generally focused on the rise
of the so-called welfare state and institutional provision for the
poor. Recent studies have begun to look beyond the state to other
ways in which assistance, care, and support were provided in the
past, but the focus remains primarily on the poor. This work widens
our understanding of welfare by focusing not on the poor but on
those who have some wealth. It draws attention to the importance of
family as part of a "mixed economy" of welfare provision that also
incorporates the state, the market, and the voluntary sector. This
book offers an exciting new approach to the history of welfare by
focusing attention on the complex range of sources of support drawn
on to meet family needs. The chapters highlight the significance of
the family as a link in in the provision of assistance. They also
focus on the role played by gender relations in shaping welfare
strategies. An extensive introduction is followed by ten chapters
presenting detailed studies of the provision of family welfare
across western Europe and the United States over the past four
hundred years.
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed
significant developments in the structure, organization, and
expansion of financial markets and opportunities for investment in
Britain and its empire. But very little is known about how men and
women engaged with these markets and with new opportunities for
money-making. In what ways did the composition of personal fortunes
alter in response to these developments? How did individuals make
use of new financial opportunities to further their own priorities
and ensure their families' well-being? What choices of securities
did they make, and how did these reflect their attitudes to
investment risk? What were the implications of a rapidly growing
investor population for corporate governance and the regulation of
markets? How significant is gender in understanding new patterns of
wealth holding and investment?
This interdisciplinary book brings together a range of leading
international scholars to answer these questions and to develop
important new research agendas. Foremost among these is a concern
for gender, with several of the chapters exploring the growing
importance of women within investment markets. These findings open
up dialogues between economic and financial historians with social,
gender, and feminist historians, and add a significant new
dimension to existing research on women's economic agency. The
volume also breaks fresh ground by analysing aspects of wealth
holding and finance in British colonial settings: Canada and
Australia. Understanding the extent to which global financial
processes shaped the economic lives of those on the 'periphery' as
well as at the 'heart' of empire will offer new insights into the
social and geographical diffusion of financial markets.
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