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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...
About the Author
Maria Ågren is Professor of History at Uppsala University and author of Domestic Secrets: Women and Property in Sweden, 1600-1857, among other titles. She is involved in various aspects of the digital humanities.
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"By shedding light on work and gender in a relatively poorly known kingdom that was a major power in the early modern period, this book makes a valuable contribution to the comparative study of early modern women." -- Eleanor Hubbard, Early Modern Women
"The essays situate work culturally and socially, finding that people performed group identity and social hierarchy through their work, constructing difference and sameness. The 'verb-oriented method' of...
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 0190240628
- ISBN 13 9780190240622
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages274
- EditorÅgren Maria
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 'workverbs' 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 analyticpowers--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. This book 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 ofwork 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 extentwork 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. Making a Living, Making a Difference offers an eye-opening perspective on what men and women in early modern European society did all day. Based on an innovative method and a large data collection of everyday activities, the authors show the ways in which gender and work were linked in early modern society by revealing household, unpaid, and hidden, as well as paid, labor. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780190240622
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