Volume 19 Number 3 August 2014
Contents
Special Section: Households, family workshops and unpaid market work in Europe from the 16th century to the present
Guest Editors: Manuela Martini and Anna Bellavitis
Introduction
Household economies, social norms and practices of unpaid market work in Europe from the sixteenth century to the present
Manuela Martini and Anna Bellavitis 273
Articles
Enterprising widows and active wives: women’s unpaid work in the household economy of early modern England
Jane Whittle 283
The profits of unpaid work. ‘Assisting labour’ of women in the early modern urban Dutch economy
Ariadne Schmidt 301
Only unpaid labour force? Women’s and girls’ work and property in family business in early modern Italy
Beatrice Zucca Micheletto 323
Female and male domestic partners in wine-grape farms (Cognac, France): conjugal asymmetry and gender discrimination in family businesses
Céline Bessière 341
Women and family businesses. When women are left only minor roles
Francesca Maria Cesaroni and Annalisa Sentuti 358
Regular Papers
Son of two fathers? Trajan and the adoption of emperorship in the Roman Empire
Olivier Hekster 380
Labor division in an upland economy: workforce in a seventeenth-century transhumance system
Jesper Larsson 393
