The French census of 1851 is one of the few nineteenth-century censuses that attempted to record the work of women and children carried out within households. This paper argues that the occupational designations in the nominative census lists are an accurate indicator of employment status. This...

The book "Russia: a long time" by Yegor Gaidar suggest a wide review of the economic history from the Neolithic age to the present day. Over the past few years several similar books have been published, but none of them combines Marxist dialect and specific vision of Russia from within. And...

The French census of 1851 is one of the few nineteenth-century censuses that attempted to record the work of women and children carried out within households. This paper argues that the occupational designations in the nominative census lists are an accurate indicator of employment status. This...