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Special Section: Households, family workshops and unpaid market work in Europe from the 16th century to the present

The profits of unpaid work. ‘Assisting labour’ of women in the early modern urban Dutch economy

Ariadne SchmidtDepartment of History, Leiden University, Leiden, NetherlandsCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 301-322 | Received 07 Oct 2013, Accepted 14 Jan 2014, Published online: 03 Mar 2014

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