Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Comparative History of Households, Gender and Work
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Inaugural lecture
On Friday 21 December 2018 3:45 PM, I will give my inaugural lecture, entitled Women Workers of the World United. A Comparative History of Households, Gender and Work. This public…
Publications
Challenging the de-industrialization thesis. Gender and indigenous textile…
Many dependency theorists as well as economic historians have contended that nineteenth-century imperial policies and economic globalization de-industrialized the global ‘periphery’. European metropoles extracted raw materials and tropical commodities from…
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Language
“One can sleep with anyone, but one can only read some people’s words.” Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (1991 [2nd ed.]), p. 77 One of the great advantages of staying…
