Corinne Boter
Biographic Data
| ID | 953629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Corinne Boter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Corinne |
| FAMILY NAME | Boter |
| SIGNATURE | BOTER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A U-shaped curve of female entrepreneurs? The development of women's entrepreneurship in the Netherlands, 1899-2020
Many economic historians have shown that the relationship between female labour force participation and economic development is U-shaped. However, most studies on this phenomenon do not differentiate between female wage labourers and entrepreneurs. We argue that this is problematic because standard explanations of women's wage work do not necessarily apply to entrepreneurs. To demonstrate this, this paper studies female entrepreneurship in the Ne…
Global Shifts and Local Actors
The location of major textile manufacturing centres has shifted several times over the past 250 years, from Asia to Europe and the us, then back to Asia. Mainstream explanations for these shifts take a macro-approach and hence oversimplify the mechanisms behind them. We investigate these mechanisms at the micro-level of the household to gain a deeper understanding of the relocations of textile production worldwide. We do so by studying Dutch and …
The Emergence of the Dutch Housewife Revised. How Shifts in Local Labour Market Structures Shaped Dutch Unmarried Women’s Labour Force Participation, 1812–1929
Most studies on the long-term development of female labour force participation argue that social norms and rising wages were key drivers. However, the majority of these conclusions apply to married women. Instead, this study zooms in on unmarried women. Based on nearly 2 million marriage records that have been digitised by Kees Mandemakers' LINKS project, it shows that there were large regional differences in the levels of labour force participat…
Living standards and the life cycle
Conventional methods of measuring historical household living standards are often criticized because of the omission of women's and children's wages and non-wage income; the focus on urban centres; and the exclusion of life-cycle changes in household composition, income, and consumption. This article presents a method that accounts for these issues and applies it to agricultural and textile households in the early-twentieth century Netherlands. I…
Servants in Rural Europe, 1400–1900
This book is a welcome contribution to the existing literature on the history of servanthood. As Whittle rightly points out, most studies concern urban domestic service, although historically, the largest share of servants has worked in the countryside. In an excellent introduction, Whittle outlines the theoretical background of the book, in which the work of Hajnal and Laslett play a central role.1 Hajnal outlined a specific Western European dem…
Marriages are Made in Kitchens
Due to methodological difficulties of historical research on women’s labor, little is known of women’s contribution to household incomes in preindustrial economies. This article is the first to use domestic servants’ wages, as documented in account books from the period 1752–1805, to estimate the capital that women could accumulate during their years of service before marriage. As such, it offers a new perspective on women’s contribution to house…
Ideal versus reality? The domesticity ideal and household labour relations in Dutch industrializing regions, circa 1890
For long, international comparisons of female labour force participation (FLFP) have been based on aggregate source material, most notably censuses. However, the lion’s share of today’s historians agree that censuses have systematically underreported women’s work activities. Consequently, scholars relying on this source have found a nineteenth-century Dutch male breadwinner society while others have found that the Dutch female labour force was qu…
Angelique Janssens, Labouring Lives. Women, work and the demographic transition in the Netherlands, 1880-1960
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Living standards and the life cycle
Conventional methods of measuring historical household living standards are often criticized because of the omission of women's and children's wages and non-wage income; the focus on urban centres; and the exclusion of life-cycle changes in household composition, income, and consumption. This article presents a method that accounts for these issues and applies it to agricultural and textile households in the early-twentieth century Netherlands. I…
A U-shaped curve of female entrepreneurs? The development of women's entrepreneurship in the Netherlands, 1899-2020
Many economic historians have shown that the relationship between female labour force participation and economic development is U-shaped. However, most studies on this phenomenon do not differentiate between female wage labourers and entrepreneurs. We argue that this is problematic because standard explanations of women's wage work do not necessarily apply to entrepreneurs. To demonstrate this, this paper studies female entrepreneurship in the Ne…
Ideal versus reality? The domesticity ideal and household labour relations in Dutch industrializing regions, circa 1890
For long, international comparisons of female labour force participation (FLFP) have been based on aggregate source material, most notably censuses. However, the lion’s share of today’s historians agree that censuses have systematically underreported women’s work activities. Consequently, scholars relying on this source have found a nineteenth-century Dutch male breadwinner society while others have found that the Dutch female labour force was qu…
Angelique Janssens, Labouring Lives. Women, work and the demographic transition in the Netherlands, 1880-1960
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Marriages are Made in Kitchens
Due to methodological difficulties of historical research on women’s labor, little is known of women’s contribution to household incomes in preindustrial economies. This article is the first to use domestic servants’ wages, as documented in account books from the period 1752–1805, to estimate the capital that women could accumulate during their years of service before marriage. As such, it offers a new perspective on women’s contribution to house…
Ideal versus reality? The domesticity ideal and household labour relations in Dutch industrializing regions, circa 1890
For long, international comparisons of female labour force participation (FLFP) have been based on aggregate source material, most notably censuses. However, the lion’s share of today’s historians agree that censuses have systematically underreported women’s work activities. Consequently, scholars relying on this source have found a nineteenth-century Dutch male breadwinner society while others have found that the Dutch female labour force was qu…
Servants in Rural Europe, 1400–1900
This book is a welcome contribution to the existing literature on the history of servanthood. As Whittle rightly points out, most studies concern urban domestic service, although historically, the largest share of servants has worked in the countryside. In an excellent introduction, Whittle outlines the theoretical background of the book, in which the work of Hajnal and Laslett play a central role.1 Hajnal outlined a specific Western European dem…
Living standards and the life cycle
Conventional methods of measuring historical household living standards are often criticized because of the omission of women's and children's wages and non-wage income; the focus on urban centres; and the exclusion of life-cycle changes in household composition, income, and consumption. This article presents a method that accounts for these issues and applies it to agricultural and textile households in the early-twentieth century Netherlands. I…
The Emergence of the Dutch Housewife Revised. How Shifts in Local Labour Market Structures Shaped Dutch Unmarried Women’s Labour Force Participation, 1812–1929
Most studies on the long-term development of female labour force participation argue that social norms and rising wages were key drivers. However, the majority of these conclusions apply to married women. Instead, this study zooms in on unmarried women. Based on nearly 2 million marriage records that have been digitised by Kees Mandemakers' LINKS project, it shows that there were large regional differences in the levels of labour force participat…
Global Shifts and Local Actors
The location of major textile manufacturing centres has shifted several times over the past 250 years, from Asia to Europe and the us, then back to Asia. Mainstream explanations for these shifts take a macro-approach and hence oversimplify the mechanisms behind them. We investigate these mechanisms at the micro-level of the household to gain a deeper understanding of the relocations of textile production worldwide. We do so by studying Dutch and …
A U-shaped curve of female entrepreneurs? The development of women's entrepreneurship in the Netherlands, 1899-2020
Many economic historians have shown that the relationship between female labour force participation and economic development is U-shaped. However, most studies on this phenomenon do not differentiate between female wage labourers and entrepreneurs. We argue that this is problematic because standard explanations of women's wage work do not necessarily apply to entrepreneurs. To demonstrate this, this paper studies female entrepreneurship in the Ne…
Historical Economic and Social Studies (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Labour economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works)