Textile Wages, Women’s Earning Power, and Household Living Standards in the Yangtze Delta, 1756–c.1930.
1. Introduction In his seminal book Development as Freedom, Amartya Sen (2000) distinguishes two definitions of women’s agency and equality: “intrinsic” (for the good of a woman’s position itself) and “instrumental” (for the benefit of the economy and society as a whole). Studying the instrumental as well as the intrinsic aspects of women’s economic activities in […]
Female Labour Force Participation and Occupational Structure in Rural Households of Tenerife in the Late Eighteenth Century.
1. Introducción La historia del trabajo femenino en las sociedades preindustriales ha ido ganando relevancia en las últimas décadas (Rial, 2003). Y eso a pesar de que su estudio se ve condicionado por la dificultad que entraña encontrar fuentes históricas con datos fiables capaces de cuantificar la aportación efectuada por las mujeres en el seno […]
