Women, work and colonialism in the Netherlands and Java : comparisons, contrasts, and connections, 1830-1940 /: comparisons, contrasts, and connections, 1830-1940. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk.
• Authors: Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise van
• Contents: Intro; Acknowledgements; Praise for Women, Work and Colonialism in the Netherlands and Java; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction: Women's Work in the Netherlands and Java, 1830-1940; 1.1 Women's Work and Empire; 1.2 Household Labour Relations, Colonial Extraction and Living Standards: Concepts and Debates; Household Labour Relations; Colonial Extraction and Underdevelopment; The De-industrialisation Thesis; Living Standards in the Long Nineteenth Century; 1.3 Economy, Society and Labour in the Dutch Empire: A Brief Historiography 1.4 Comparisons, Contrasts and Connections in the Dutch Empire1.5 Methods and Sources; 1.6 Outline of the Book; Bibliography; 2 An Exceptional Empire? Dutch Colonialism in Comparative Perspective; 2.1 Good Governance? Practices and Self-Images of Dutch Colonialism1; 2.2 Colonial Extraction and Taxation; 2.3 Forced Labour: Exceptional and Exemplary; 2.4 Between Civilising and Developing: Social Policies and Norms Compared; 2.5 Setting the Stage: Empire and Entanglements; Bibliography; 3 Industrious Women in an Imperial Economy: The Cultivation System and Its Consequences 3.1 Inducing Industriousness: Ideas on Poverty and Work in the Dutch Empire Around 180013.2 The Cultivation System and the Batig Slot (c. 1830-1870); 3.3 Consequences of the Cultivation System for Women's Work in Java; 3.4 Consequences of the Cultivation System for Dutch Households and Women's Work; 3.5 Comparison: Economic Policies and Shifting Burdens in the Dutch Empire, c. 1830-1870; Appendix 1-Reported Occupation in Marriage Records and Censuses; Marriage Records; Censuses; Author's estimates; Bibliography Appendix 1; Bibliography 4 Industrialisation, De-industrialisation and Women's Work: Textile Production in the Dutch Empire4.1 Textile Production, Colonialism and Gender1; 4.2 Economic Policies, Industrialisation and De-industrialisation in the Dutch Empire; 4.3 Textile Production and Women's Work in Java; Spinning; Weaving; Cloth Printing; 4.4 Textile Production and Women's Work in The Netherlands; 4.5 Economic Change, Women's Work and the Unintended Consequences of Colonial Policies; Bibliography; 5 Contrasting Consumption: Household Income and Living Standards in the Netherlands and Java, 1870-1940 5.1 Living Standards, Consumption and the Male Breadwinner Model15.2 Nominal and Real Wages in the Netherlands and Java; 5.3 From Wages to Household Income: Exploring Household Budgets; 5.4 Consumption, Nutrition and Expenditure Patterns Compared; 5.5 Goods from the East and the Plantation Economy in Java; 5.6 Diverging Living Standards; Appendix 1: Dutch Wage Database-Sources and Methods; Introductory Note; List of Primary and Secondary Sources from Which the Unskilled Wage Data in This Chapter Are Derived; Bibliography Appendix 1; Appendix 2: Javanese Wage Database-Sources and Methods
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 331.4094; Women -- Employment -- Netherlands -- History; Women -- Employment -- Indonesia -- Java -- History; Women -- Netherlands -- Economic conditions -- History; Women -- Indonesia -- Java -- Economic conditions -- History; Housekeeping -- Netherlands -- History; Housekeeping -- Indonesia -- Java -- History; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030105280; 3030105288
• Related ISBNs: 9783030105273
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 9, 2019).
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