Young women and work -- Earning a living : daughters and the family economy -- Entering employment -- Mobility …

standards. Yet during this period, tens of thousands of men and women were imprisoned for failing to pay their debts. The … others. In an era of growing debt and the squeeze of the middle class, The Poverty of Disaster offers a new history of …

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 …

Introduction -- How the other half lives: rural women encounter England's land rights revolution -- Imperial Russia …!": Kikuyu women and land rights -- Conclusion …