Van regionaal naar globaal. Wat kunnen we leren van internationaal vergelijkend historisch onderzoek naar arbeid en gender
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12840388 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk (0000-0003-1527-5798, Utrecht University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 77-96 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | TSEG/ Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1572-1701 • E-ISSN: 2468-9068 |
| Publisher | International Institute of Social History (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.18352/tseg.1126 |
| OpenAlex | W3034449065 |
| Language | NL |
| References cited | 7 |
This article aims to bring together three different long-term, global comparative studies on women’s work in three sectors: the textile industry, domestic service and sex work from the seventeenth century to today. Although there were notable differences between developments in these three occupations over time, it is clear that they all represent the ubiquitous precarity that runs through the history of work. Instead of viewing precarious labour as a novel development, history shows that the ILO model of ‘standard employment’ is an exception in history. Both in the Global North and in the Global South, at least half of the world’s historical population – women – often worked in underpaid, poorly organized jobs, under unequal power relations. However, despite these consistent practices of subordination, this article also highlights that within the given constrictions, female labourers who were formally powerless could exert considerable agency, using informal networks and power mechanisms that often emerged from the inherent intimacy of the labour relations they were involved in
Agency (philosophy · Gender relations · Political science · Population · Power (physics · Precarity · Social science · Sociology · Subordination (linguistics · Work (physics · World history · Demography · Gender Studies · International Labor and Employment Law · Labor Movements and Unions · Law
Sexual Affronts and Racial FrontiersEuropean Identities and the Cultural Politics of Exclusion in Colonial Southeast Asia
Globalization, gender and poverty
Historians, Social Scientists, Servants and Domestic Workers
Het Amsterdams hoerdom
Workers of the World
Historians, Social Scientists, Servants, and Domestic Workers
Affective Labor and Feminist Politics
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |