"Technological change is about more than inventions. This concise history of the Industrial Revolution places the … that would reconfigure world history in favour of British (and European) global domination. In this accessible analysis of … the classic case of rapid and revolutionary technological change, Barbara Hahn takes readers from the north of England to …

Chapter 1: Introduction. Women’s work in the Netherlands and Java, 1830-1940 -- Chapter 2: An exceptional empire? Dutch … colonialism in comparative perspective -- Chapter 3: Industrious women in an imperial economy: The Cultivation System and its … consequences -- Chapter 4: Industrialisation, de-industrialisation, and women’s work: Textile production in the Dutch Empire …

market economics can improve the position, status and well-being of women. The authors argue that, far from being restrictive … performance, business attitudes to women, lobbying by women's groups and equal opportunities legislation …

Originally conceived as small-scale loans allowing impoverished women to invest in informal sector economic … development tool used to empower women in low- and middle-income countries. Women and Microfinance in the Global South … between microfinance and women's empowerment, questioning how microfinance facilitates the economic and socio …

-Century Mexico City -- 3. Investing in Enterprise: Women Entrepreneurs in Colonial ‘South Africa’ -- 4. A Mosaic of Entrepreneurship …: Entrepreneurial Women among Chinese Pirates in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- 9. The Business of Self-Endowment: Women Merchants … Entrepreneurship in Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States Cities -- 11. Japanese Female Entrepreneurs: Women in Kyoto Businesses in …