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According to a strong historiographical tradition on Northern Europe, in the early modern times women were excluded from guilds. More generally a progressive loss of ‘status’ of women’s work had supposedly taken place, whose causes should be sought in the development of a capitalist-type mode of production and in the growing separation between workplace and family home. Comparing different European cities, all along the early modern period, the chapter highlights a different and more contradictory evolution.
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Bellavitis, A. (2018). The ‘Decline Thesis’ and the Guilds: An ‘Accordion Movement’?. In: Women’s Work and Rights in Early Modern Urban Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96541-3_4
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