| Description |
xvii, 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Routledge research in gender and history ; 5 |
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Routledge research in gender and history ; 5.
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| Note |
Papers presented at the International Economic History Congress, 1998, Madrid. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Women migrants as global and local agents / Christiane Harzig -- Leaving home to help the family? / Carmen Sarasua -- Labour migration, family and community in early modern Japan / Mary Louise Nagata -- Women and long-distance trade migration in the nineteenth-century Netherlands / Marlou Schrover -- Nowhere at home? / Sylvia Hahn -- Gender, family, work and migration in early nineteenth-century Scotland / David Tidswell -- Wives or workers? / Jan Gothard -- Historical perspective on female migrants / Simone A. Wegge -- When the migrants are men / Donna Gabaccia -- Gender and twentieth-century Irish migration, 1921-1971 / Enda Delaney -- Maids on the move / Barbara Henkes -- Female migration and the farm family economy in interwar Japan / Janet Hunter -- Migrancy, marriage and family in the Ciskei reserve of South Africa, 1945-1959 / Anne Mager -- Women and migrants / Paulina de los Reyes. |
| Subject |
Women -- Employment -- Congresses.
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Women foreign workers -- Congresses.
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Minority women -- Employment -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Sharpe, Pamela.
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International Economic History Congress (1998 : Madrid, Spain)
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| Added Title |
Women, gender, and labor migration |
| ISBN |
041522800X alkaline paper |
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