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Ideal versus reality? The domesticity ideal and household labour relations in Dutch industrializing regions, circa 1890

Corinne BoterRural and Environmental History, Wageningen University, Wageningen, NetherlandsCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 82-102 | Received 14 Sep 2015, Accepted 04 Mar 2016, Published online: 22 Apr 2016

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