On March 8th, Angélique Janssens (Radboud University) will give a lecture on: Labouring lives. Women, work and the demographic transition in the Netherlands, 1880-1960
Date: March 8th, 2016
Time: 12.30-14.00 hrs
Place: room C68, Leeuwenborch
This lecture is part of the monthly RHI Seminar series (see below). In principle, seminars take place every second Tuesday of the month. The seminar is open to the public, but with regard to accommodation and distribution of the paper in advance, we would like you to give notice of attention to the RHI Secretariat.
ABSTRACT
Angélique Janssens will present her book “Labouring lives. Women, work and the demographic transition in the Netherlands, 1880-1960”. This book uses dynamic data from Dutch population registers and analytical techniques from the life course approach to investigate women’s changing position in the labour market, their role in pre-nuptial sexuality, and their contribution to marriage and fertility change in the Netherlands between 1880 and 1960. The author reconstructs the socio-economic and demographic worlds of different groups of working and non-working women. Differences in fertility strategies, stopping versus spacing, amongst various social and cultural groups in the Netherlands are reconstructed.
RHI Seminars
How and why have economies grown historically? Why and how did worldwide inequalities come into being? How have people all over the world in the past up to the present dealt with the issue of providing a living for themselves and their families? To what extent did they do so either in harmony or in conflict with their surrounding natural environments? And how did this all develop over time?
The RHI seminar aims to address these and other questions by organizing monthly lectures and papers on concrete empirical case studies from economic and social history. We explicitly welcome a lively debate on the presented work, and therefore usually distribute the papers beforehand. We regularly invite international speakers, such as James Robinson and Jan de Vries, but also people from the Netherlands and the own chair group.
RHI seminars in principle take place every second Tuesday of the month. They are open to the public, but with regard to accommodation and distribution of the paper in advance, we would like you to give notice of attention to the Rural and Environmental History Group.
More information on upcoming seminars and registration can be found on our website.