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.