Calendrier du 14 septembre 2022
Economic History Seminar
Du 14/09/2022 de 12:00 à 13:30
Salle R2.01, Campus Jourdan
TERKI-MIGNOT Auriane (University of Cambridge)
Occupational structure and patterns of women's work in France, 1792-1901
This paper will introduce a project aiming to establish patterns of women’s work over the period of French industrialisation. It will propose a methodology to identify case studies and extract useable data on women’s work from population listings and censuses, from the Revolutionary period to the early twentieth-century. The paper will end with preliminary estimates of female and male labour force participation rates and sectoral distribution drawn from two case studies in the Seine-Maritime and the Eure-et-Loir. Overall, the paper will aim to show that data on women’s work is crucial to our understanding of the chronology, mechanisms, and nature of French industrialisation and that, in the French case, such data can be successfully retrieved.