Women’s Work and Rights in Early Modern Urban Europe

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 Women Have Always Worked  (Anna Bellavitis)....Pages 3-18
 The Gender of Work  (Anna Bellavitis)....Pages 19-30
 Working Daughters, Wives, Mothers, Sisters, Widows  (Anna Bellavitis)....Pages 31-41
 The ‘Decline Thesis’ and the Guilds: An ‘Accordion Movement’?  (Anna Bellavitis)....Pages 43-56
 From Globalisation to Industrialisation  (Anna Bellavitis)....Pages 57-68
 Agency and Capabilities: North Versus South?  (Anna Bellavitis)....Pages 69-86
 The Right to Learn, the Right to Teach: Intellectual and Artistic Work as a Profession  (Anna Bellavitis)....Pages 87-108
Front Matter ....Pages 109-109
 Servants and Slaves  (Anna Bellavitis)....Pages 111-128
 Caring and Feeding  (Anna Bellavitis)....Pages 129-144
 Midwives  (Anna Bellavitis)....Pages 145-156
 Bodies as Resources  (Anna Bellavitis)....Pages 157-167
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 Learning at Home and on the Shop Floor  (Anna Bellavitis)....Pages 171-182
 Women, Families, Guilds and the French Exception  (Anna Bellavitis)....Pages 183-196
 Silk and Skill  (Anna Bellavitis)....Pages 197-208
 Printed Tracks  (Anna Bellavitis)....Pages 209-218
 In the Market Place  (Anna Bellavitis)....Pages 219-234
 International Traders  (Anna Bellavitis)....Pages 235-249
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 Conclusion: Changes and Continuity  (Anna Bellavitis)....Pages 253-261
Back Matter ....Pages 263-266