Women and Credit in Pre-Industrial and Developing Societies / / William Chester Jordan.

The active role of women in the labor force is not limited to recent decades, or even to the last century. As William Chester Jordan amply demonstrates in Women and Credit in Pre-Industrial and Developing Societies, women in premodern times played an integral part both as a source of labor and as pa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Reprint 2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (164 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Parameters of the Study
  • Part One: Consumption Loans and Networks of Sociability in the Middle Ages
  • Part Two: Investment and Capital Formation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
  • Part Three: Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean in the Colonial and Post- Colonial Period
  • Conclusion: Persistent Concerns
  • References
  • Index
  • Backmatter