Women, work and colonialism in the Netherlands and Java : comparisons, contrasts, and connections, 1830-1940 / Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk.
2019
HD6162
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Title
Women, work and colonialism in the Netherlands and Java : comparisons, contrasts, and connections, 1830-1940 / Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk.
ISBN
9783030105280 (electronic book)
3030105288 (electronic book)
9783030105273
3030105288 (electronic book)
9783030105273
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
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HD6162
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.4094
Summary
Recent postcolonial studies have stressed the importance of the mutual influences of colonialism on both colony and metropole. This book studies such colonial entanglements and their effects by focusing on developments in household labour in the Dutch Empire in the period 1830-1940. The changing role of households', and particularly women's, economic activities in the Netherlands and Java, one of the most important Dutch colonies, forms an excellent case study to help understand the connections and disparities between colony and metropole. The author contends that colonial entanglements certainly existed, and influenced developments in women’s economic role to an extent, both in Java and the Netherlands. However, during the nineteenth century, more and more distinctions in the visions and policies towards Dutch working class and Javanese peasant households emerged. Accordingly, a more sophisticated framework is needed to explain how and why such connections were - both intentionally and unintentionally - severed over time.
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Palgrave studies in economic history.
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Table of Contents
Introduction : women's work in the Netherlands and Java, 1830-1940
An exceptional empire? Dutch colonialism in comparative perspective
Industrious women in an imperial economy : the cultivation system and its consequences
Industrialisation, de-industrialisation and women's work: textile production in the Dutch empire
Contrasting consumption : household income and living standards int eh Netherlands and Java, 1870-1940
Norms and social policies : women's and child labour legislation and education
Conclusions : women's work and divergent development in the Dutch empire.
An exceptional empire? Dutch colonialism in comparative perspective
Industrious women in an imperial economy : the cultivation system and its consequences
Industrialisation, de-industrialisation and women's work: textile production in the Dutch empire
Contrasting consumption : household income and living standards int eh Netherlands and Java, 1870-1940
Norms and social policies : women's and child labour legislation and education
Conclusions : women's work and divergent development in the Dutch empire.