The professionalization of farming for women in late Victorian Britain: the role and legacy of the Langham Place feminists / Karen Sayer and Nicola Verdon -- Good farms, markets, and communities: Emily Hoag and rural women's studies / Joan M. Jensen -- Professionalizing farm women, recognizing...

1. Things by which one measures one's life. Wealth and poverty in European rural societies / Anton Schuurman -- 2. Economic and cultural differentiation among the Late Medieval and early modern Danish peasantry / Bjørn Poulsen -- 3. Living conditions in the houses of the islands of the Cyclades...

Aus dem Vorwort: Die im Mai 1975 vom Europäischen Rat ins Leben gerufene Europäische Stiftung zur Verbesserung der Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen (Eurofound) ist eine Agentur der Europäischen Union, die das Thema der Verbesserung der Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen in Europa als zentrales...

"Living with Hard Times provides the first comparative study of the socio-political effects of the Great Recession amongst European citizens. It presents a detailed investigation of heterogeneity in the population within countries with respect to how citizens made sense of the crisis and how...