Women at Work in Preindustrial France

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Hafter contributes a great deal to our understanding of gender and the gendering of work, of the function of women’s work in patriarchal society, of the agency women held in early modern France to control their work, of the ways this control brought women into the public sphere of the old regime, and of the ways ideas about gender and work Cited by: The subject of women as skilled workers in the eighteenth century is central to our understanding of the history of work and technology in the preindustrial age.

While recent scholarship has dispelled the notion that women did not enter the workforce until the Industrial Revolution, debate continues as to the extent to which women actually participated in skilled work Cited by: WOMEN AT WORK IN PREINDUSTRIAL FRANCE By Daryl M.

Hafter - Hardcover *Excellent Condition*. debate continues as to the extent to which women actually participated in skilled work in the preceding decades. This book draws upon substantial archival research in Rouen, Lyon, and Paris to show that while the vast majority of working women.

Women at Work in Preindustrial France Daryl M. Hafter The subject of women as skilled workers in the eighteenth century is central to our understanding of the history of work and technology in the preindustrial. Women at work in preindustrial France.

[Daryl M Hafter] -- "The subject of women as skilled workers in the eighteenth century is central to our understanding of the history of work and technology in the preindustrial.

Women at Work in Preindustrial France by Daryl M. Hafter,available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. In this book I will tell the story through case studies of women workers in two major centers of the manufacture of textiles in preindustrial France.

I will compare the guildwomen in the city of Rouen with female workers in the silk industry of Lyon in order to analyze how these two groups of productive workers.

Women at work in preindustrial France. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University, © (DLC) (OCoLC) Material Type: Document, Internet resource: Document Type:. Daryl Hafter’s book examines women who worked in cloth production in two of France’s key centers of that trade, Rouen and Lyon.

In the former city, women could become members and even masters in a. Table of contents for Women at work in preindustrial france / Daryl M.

Hafter. Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog. Note: Contents data are.

Women and work in preindustrial Europe User Review - Not Available - Book Verdict. Aided by a lucid introduction, ten essays by medieval historians, specialists in working women, explore women at work.

Women and Work in Preindustrial Europe book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers/5(9). Includes bibliographical references and index Peasant women's work in the context of marriage.

Peasant women's contribution to the home economy in late Medieval England / Barbara A. Hanawalt -- The village ale-wife: women Pages:   This book surveys women and work in English society before its transition to industrial capitalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The time span of the book from to allows comparison of women’s work Author: Heide Mertens. She is the author of Women at Work in Preindustrial France. Nina Kushner is associate professor of history at Clark University. She is the author of Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Format: Paperback.

Examining female workers within and outside of the context of family, Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France challenges current scholarly assumptions about gender and labor. This stimulating and important collection of essays broadens our understanding of the diversity, vitality, and crucial importance of women’s work.

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Women and Work is showing its age a bit, but it is still a useful introduction to the topic. Hanawalt grouped the papers thematically, and provided introductions to each section, which is a plus. One interesting aspect of the book 4/5(1).

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