Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Comparative History of Households, Gender and Work
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Happy International Women’s Day!
For the occasion, Kate Frederick, Sarah Carmichael and I wrote a blog post about women's fight for better working conditions in the textile industry historically and today. Check it out!…
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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…
