Comparative History of Households, Gender and Work

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Huishoudbeurs

Recently, I was interviewed by a student from the Utrecht School of Journalism about the Dutch "Huishoudbeurs" (Household Fair), which still mostly targets women, despite waves of women's emancipation. Click…

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Supply of labour during early industrialisation: Agricultural systems,…

This article explores the reasons behind the marked differences in the gender division of labour in the emerging textile factories in Japan and India in the first half of the…

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Food for thought

When I arrived as a visiting ARC fellow to the Graduate Center at CUNY, New York a few weeks ago, I was told that the common dining room at the…