Women's Work and Rights in Early Modern Urban Europe

Part I: Women, Work, Rights and the City. - Chapter 1: Women have Always Worked. - Chapter 2: The Gender of Work. - Chapter 3: Working Daughters, Wives, Mothers, Sisters, Widows. - Chapter 4: The Decline Thesis and the Guilds: An Accordion Movement ? . - Chapter 5: From Globalisation to Industrialisation. - Chapter 6: Agency and Capabilities: North vs South? . - Chapter 7: The Right to Learn, the Right to Teach: Intellectual and Artistic Work as a Profession. - Part II: Women s Jobs. - Chapter 8: Servants and Slaves. - Chapter 9: Caring and Feeding. - Chapter 10: Midwives. - Chapter 11: Bodies as Resources. - Part III: Workshops and Markets. - Chapter 12: Learning at Home and on the Shop Floor. - Chapter 13: Women, Families and Guilds: the French Exception. - Chapter 14: Silk and Skill. - Chapter 15: Printed Tracks. - Chapter 16: In the Marketplace. - Chapter 17: International Traders. - Part IV: Conclusions. - Chapter 18: Conclusions and Suggestions for Further Research.