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SUMMARY:Women\, property and work: some considerations of the Italian case
  (Turin\, 18th century) - Beatrice Zucca Micheletto (University of Rouen)
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DESCRIPTION:Recent research that emphasises differences between northern a
 nd southern Europe has argued that in southern countries where a dowry sys
 tem was widespread\, young girls\, married women and widows were not encou
 raged to participate in the labour market since they could merely count on
  their dowry. On the contrary\, I will argue that in pre-industrial Turin\
 , dowry and women’s work were strictly connected. Not only was the dowry
  often earned by the work of young girls\, it was also invested in the fam
 ily business in which wives and widows played a crucial role as workers. T
 he speaker has recently published Travail et propriété des femmes en tem
 ps de crise (Turin\, XVIIIe siècle) (2104)\, and articles in Gender & His
 tory (2015)\; The History of the Family (2014)\, and Feminist Economics (2
 013).
LOCATION:History Faculty Room 12
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