Eileen Boris

Angelique Janssens

This volume focuses on complicating central concepts in the understanding of economic and social history: class, gender, race and ethnicity. Only recently have historians begun to ask how gender, race, and ethnicity as categories of analysis change narratives of class formation and working-class experience. While all three concepts refer to systems of inequality, it remains unclear how these systems of difference relate to each other. Despite a growing body of empirical literature, authors more often connect dyads rather than consider historical phenomenan from the tryad of class, race and gender. This volume highlights attempts to write a richer history that complicates categories, suggesting how class, gender, race and/or ethnicity combine across a wide range of economic and social landscapes.

Complicating Categories: Gender, Class, Race and Ethnicity

An innovative study examining the effects of nineteenth-century industrialisation on family life.

The Household as a Process in an Industrializing Community

Family and Social Change

Janssens Angelique

The essays look at the origins and expansion of different patterns of breadwinning.

Angelique Janssens

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