Patricia Van Den Eeckhout

Biographic Data

ID4101671
NAMEPatricia Van Den Eeckhout
GIVEN NAMESPatricia Van Den
FAMILY NAMEEeckhout
SIGNATUREVAN DEN EECKHOUT P
AFFILIATIONSVrije Universiteit Brussel
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS18
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX3

  • Waiters, Waitresses, and their Tips in Western Europe before World War I

    Open AccessPatricia Van Den EeckhoutARTICLEInternational Review of Social…2015Cited by: 2References: 5

    In nineteenth-century restaurants and cafés, customers’ tips provided the income of an increasing number of waiters and waitresses. Not only did employers refrain from paying serving staff a fixed wage, the latter had to share their employers’ general expenses, while some even had to pay a fee for the privilege of working. Exploring newspapers, pamphlets, reports, and union sources, the article discusses in a comparative way how and why these pra…

  • The Proliferation of Brands: The Case of Food in Belgium, 1890-1940

    Open AccessPatricia Van Den Eeckhout, Peter ScholliersARTICLEEnterprise & Society2011Cited by: 4References: 5

    Nowadays, brands are inescapable. Economists and marketing experts trace this pervasive presence back to the 1980s when brands and branding seemed to promise new, crucial assets for both producers and consumers. Of course, brands existed much earlier, and although some authors claim that “brands are as old as known civilization,” most researchers accept that they burgeoned with the coming of large consumer-goods–oriented factories in the 1870s, g…

  • The Strategy of a Belgian multiple grocer: Delhaize Le Lion, 1867-1940. An essay in comparative retailing history

    Patricia Van Den Eeckhout, Peter ScholliersARTICLEEntreprises et histoire2011Cited by: 4

    Une comparaison internationale fondée sur des archives très riches éclaire les voies multiples de la grande distribution. En Grande-Bretagne les maisons d’alimentation à succursales multiples servaient comme clientèle principale les ouvriers avant la Première Guerre mondiale. Elles y parvenaient grâce à une gamme limitée de produits et des coûts et des services réduits au minimum. Dans l’entre-deux-guerres la concurrence passa des prix au service…

  • Hearing the Consumer? The Laboratory, the Public, and the Construction of Food Safety in Brussels (1840s-1910s)

    Peter Scholliers, Patricia Van Den EeckhoutARTICLEJournal of Social History2011Cited by: 1

    Peter Scholliers, Patricia Van den Eeckhout; Hearing the Consumer? The Laboratory, the Public, and the Construction of Food Safety in Brussels (1840s–1910s

  • Eating and drinking in Brussels. The construction of “the good life” in the European capital

    Open AccessPatricia Van Den EeckhoutARTICLEAppetite2010Cited by: 1References: 3

  • Statistics and Social Policy in Inter-war Belgium: The 1928-1929 Inquiry into the Family Budgets of blue-collar and white-collar Workers

    Patricia Van Den EeckhoutARTICLEHistoire & Mesure2004Cited by: 1

    Statistique et politique sociale belge dans l’Entre-deux-guerres. L’enquete de 1928-1929 sur les budgets familiaux des ouvriers et des employes. En 1925, la seconde conference internationale des statisticiens du travail vota une resolution qui recommandait que des enquetes sur les budgets familiaux soient entreprises des que les conditions economiques seraient suffisamment favorables et, si possible, avant la fin de l’annee 1928. La Belgique suiv…

  • News of the Profession

    Open AccessPatricia Van Den Eeckhout, Jiirgen Kocka et al.ARTICLEInternational Review of Social…1995

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  • Family Income of Ghent Working-Class Families Ca. 1900

    Open AccessPatricia Van Den EeckhoutARTICLEJournal of Family History1993Cited by: 5References: 8

    Using an extensive inquiry into the family income of Ghent artisans and cotton, linen, and metal workers around 1900, the research reported in this article examines the level and the composition of family income at different phases of the life-cycle. In the Belgian textile center Ghent, which was characterized by a low male wage level, married women made a substantial contribution to the family income, especially in the years before children star…