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Professor Carmen Sarasúa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Monday 19 January 2015, 13:00-14:00
Women’s work and structural change. Manufactures in 18th-century rural Spain
- 👤 Speaker: Professor Carmen Sarasúa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
- 📅 Date & Time: Monday 19 January 2015, 13:00 - 14:00
- 📍 Venue: Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History
Abstract
Economic modernization is understood as the process by which societies moved from peasant to urban, and production and employment from agricultural to industrial. The main indicators of this transition are the share of GDP originated by the industrial and service sectors, and the share of population in non-agricultural, i.e., industrial and service, occupations.This paper does two things: first, it calculates women’s participation in 18th century inland Spain, thus contributing to knowledge on women’s work and on labor market segregation by gender in pre-industrial Europe. Secondly, it shows that taking into account women’s paid work transforms our vision of the structure of employment in preindustrial times, and thus the conventional vision of how economic and social modernization occurred.
Series This talk is part of the Quantitative History Seminar series.
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