scholarly journals Coping with economic uncertainty: women's work and the protoindustrial family in eighteenth-century Lyon

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-52
Author(s):  
Anne Montenach
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Adaptive Strategies ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Economic Uncertainty ◽  
Silk Industry ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Real Issue ◽  
Micro Level

AbstractThe aim of this article is to analyse how female working conditions and remunerations were affected by the structural and economic crises that impacted Lyon's silk industry in the second half of the eighteenth century. It concentrates, at a micro level, on different circumstances in which sources allow us to see women and their families coping with economic uncertainty: small-scale wage conflicts with their employers, clandestine work and illicit activities. This essay studies how women's work was a real issue in power conflicts and a tool for household adaptive strategies during periods of crisis.

‘No Small Share of Ingenuity’: An Object-Oriented Analysis of Eighteenth-Century English Dressmaking

Costume ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-211
Author(s):  
Carolyn Dowdell
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Secondary Source ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Object Based ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Source Materials ◽  
Object Oriented Analysis

This article details eighteenth-century English dressmaking through an in-depth, object-oriented exploration of garment construction practices and techniques from a maker's perspective. Building upon prior scholarship of women's work and aspects of pre-industrial English garment trades, this article employs primary and secondary source materials in conjunction with extensive object-based research of extant garments. The research findings outline exactly how pre-industrial English dressmakers’ skills were nuanced, sophisticated and adaptive to making and remaking, as well as the personal, haptic connections they cultivated with their work.

Understanding Women's Work: Steps toward Transformation—an Introduction

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana María Seifert ◽  
Karen Messing
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Ultimate Cause ◽  
To Come ◽  
Work And Health

A session at the 2005 Delhi Congress on Women, Work and Health was entitled “Social movements and research on women, work and health: How can researchers and community members work together on current problems?” and described researcher-worker collaboration to gain recognition for the constraints and requirements of women's jobs. Suffering in the workplace may appear to come primarily from such visible aggressors as toxins and heavy weights, but its ultimate cause is the powerlessness, isolation, and denigration that sap workers’ ability to fight back. Participatory research projects described here have promoted solidarity and encouraged the transformation of working conditions.

Emissaries, allies, accomplices and enemies: married women's work in eighteenth-century urban Sweden

Urban History ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARIA ÅGREN
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Court Records ◽  
Women’S Work

ABSTRACTBased on so-called Excise court records, this article argues that in eighteenth-century urban Sweden much of middling women's work took place in the interstices between households, as ‘help’ given to other women, often across social divides. These forms of work are often difficult to track in the historical records and, consequently, they have remained unnoticed, creating the erroneous picture that women did not contribute to their households through paid work. The lack of attention to these kinds of work has also overemphasized the closed character of early modern households which were, in fact, both flexible and permeable units.

Women’s Work and Working Conditions

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Glauber
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Women’S Work

scholarly journals Women and Gender in the Mines: Challenging Masculinity Through History: An Introduction

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-230
Author(s):  
Rossana Barragán Romano ◽  
Leda Papastefanaki
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Mining Communities ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Household Workers ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
And Gender

AbstractThe role of women as mineworkers and as household workers has been erased. Here, we challenge the masculinity associated with the mines, taking a longer-term and a global labour history perspective. We foreground the importance of women as mineworkers in different parts of the world since the early modern period and analyse the changes introduced in coal mining in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the masculinization and mechanization, and the growing importance of women in contemporary artisanal and small-scale mining. The effect of protective laws and the exclusion of women from underground tasks was to restrict women's work more to the household, which played a pivotal role in mining communities but is insufficiently recognized. This process of “de-labourization” of women's work was closely connected with the distinction between productive and unproductive labour. This introductory article therefore centres on the important work carried out in the household by women and children. Finally, we present the three articles in this Special Theme and discuss how each of them is in dialogue with the topics addressed here. Many thanks also to Marie-José Spreeuwenberg for her invaluable engagement.

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