Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Comparative History of Households, Gender and Work
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Where did all the workers go?
On 8 September 2022, I gave my inaugural lecture at Utrecht University, entitled "Where did all the workers go? Women, industrialization, and the decline of hand spinning in Europe and…
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Supply of labour during early industrialisation: Agricultural systems,…
This article explores the reasons behind the marked differences in the gender division of labour in the emerging textile factories in Japan and India in the first half of the…
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Corona and Research
Covid-19 is shaking up our society. As we speak, our Prime Minister is seriously condemning the violence that has taken place in several parts of the Netherlands over the past…
fucked up that history professors are allowed to call 1789-1914 “the long 19th century” and yet somehow my paper is “late” because they wont accept 5 am as part of “long yesterday”