In the last decades, women’s role in the workforce has dramatically changed, though gender inequality persists and for women, gender identity still prevails over work identity. It is important not to forget or diminish the historical role of women in the labour market though and this book...

1. Introduction: Chaînes Opératoires and the Making of Roman Bread -- 2. Baking as Cultural Heritage: Regional Variation in the Roman Production of Bread -- 3. Modes of Production: Bakeries as Factories and Workshops -- 4 Experiencing the Bakery: Training, Status, Labor, and Exploitation -- 5....

Chapter 1 Reinsurance in America Regulatory Regimes and Markets -- Chapter 2 Dutch reinsurance and the first wave of globalization -- Chapter 3 Swedish Reinsurers in the Non-Life Sector -- Chapter 4 The ups and downs of French reinsurance in the 20th century -- Chapter 5 The ups and downs of...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Rome and the Papal State: Old Customs and the New Kingdom of Italy -- Chapter 3: Finance and Banking -- Chapter 4: Structural Elements of the Rome Stock Exchange: Regulations, Price Lists and Intermediaries -- Chapter 5: The Rome Stock Exchange and the...

1. Work and Labour: Meanings and Concepts -- 2. Population, Urbanization and Working People -- 3. Technology, Markets, Specializations and Organization of Production -- 4. Labour Relations -- 5. Labour Conditions -- 5. Work and the Little Divergence

1. Introduction -- 2. Understanding the bicycle as a product -- 3. Understanding the market through bicycle statistics -- 4. Marketing the bicycle -- 5. Twenty years of variety marketing in the Italian market: Cannondale 1998–2017 -- 6. Conclusion.

Space is a crucial variable in any economic activity. Spatial Economics is the branch of economics that explicitly aims to incorporate the space dimension in the analysis of economic phenomena. From its beginning in the last century, Spatial Economics has contributed to the understanding of the...

Section 1: Incarceration—Convicts, unfree labour and colonial capitalism -- Chapter 1: Unfree labour, Dissent, Convict-transportation and the building of colonial capital -- Chapter 2: Approaches, Sources and Methods -- Chapter 3: Convict Eastern Australia: Labour Bureaucracy or Police State?...

1. Introduction -- 2. Global Human Migration -- 3. Slavery - The Ancient and Medieval Periods -- 4. Slavery in the New World - the Saga of Native Indians -- 5. Slavery in the New World - The Saga of Black Africans -- 6. Indentured Servitude - The Saga of the Indians and the Chinese -- 7....

Introduction: Current Conditions of Work and Family in Japan -- 1 The Factors of Fertility Decline in Japan -- 2 The Japanese Working Custom and Women’s Employment Participation -- 3 Work and Family in Japan from the Comparative Perspective -- 4 Family Formation and Disparity -- 5 The...