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Every society throughout history has defined what counts as work
and what doesn't. And more often than not, those lines of
demarcation are inextricable from considerations of gender. What Is
Work? offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding labor
within the highly gendered realm of household economies. Drawing
from scholarship on gender history, economic sociology, family
history, civil law, and feminist economics, these essays explore
the changing and often contested boundaries between what was and is
considered work in different Euro-American contexts over several
centuries, with an eye to the ambiguities and biases that have
shaped mainstream conceptions of work across all social sectors.
This edited collection explores the notion of Italianness - or
Italianita - through migration history. It focuses on the
interaction between Italians circulating around the world, and
their relationship with Italy from a political and cultural
perspective. Answering the important question of how migration
affects Italianness, the authors explore the ways in which migrants
retained their Italian culture, customs and practices during and
after their travels. Spanning a long period from the Risorgimento
up until the 1960s, the book sheds light on the institutions and
social structures that contributed to the construction of cultural
links between Italian migrants and their country of origin. Not
only broad in its temporal scope, the volume covers a wide
geographic area, examining the lives of Italian migrants in North
America, South America, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
Bringing together a wealth of research on Italians, alongside the
different migratory routes taken by these men and women, this book
provides new insights into Italian culture and seeks to strengthen
our understanding of Italian migration history.
Every society throughout history has defined what counts as work
and what doesn't. And more often than not, those lines of
demarcation are inextricable from considerations of gender. What Is
Work? offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding labor
within the highly gendered realm of household economies. Drawing
from scholarship on gender history, economic sociology, family
history, civil law, and feminist economics, these essays explore
the changing and often contested boundaries between what was and is
considered work in different Euro-American contexts over several
centuries, with an eye to the ambiguities and biases that have
shaped mainstream conceptions of work across all social sectors.
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