Women's Economic Position

2012 forthcoming. ‘Beware What You Buy’, BBC History Magazine [with M. Küpker & J. Maegraith].

2012 forthcoming. ‘Frauen und die materielle Kultur des Essens im frühneuzeitlichen Württemberg. Ergebnisse aus wildberger Inventaren, Zeitschrift für württembergische Landesgeschichte, 70 [with M. Küpker & J. Maegraith].

2012 forthcoming. ‘Household Debt in Early Modern Germany: Evidence from Personal Inventories’, Journal of Economic History 72:1 [with M. Küpker & J. Maegraith]

2010. ‘Consumption, Social Capital, and the “Industrious Revolution” in Early Modern Germany’, Journal of Economic History 70(2): 287-325.
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2009. ‘Women and the Material Culture of Food in Early Modern Germany’, Early Modern Women: an Interdisciplinary Journal, 4: 149-160 (with M. Küpker and J. Maegraith).
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2009. ‘Turning Qualitative into Quantitative Evidence: A Well-Used Method Made Explicit’, Economic History Review, 62(4), 893-925 (with A. W. Carus).
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2008. ‘Verheiratete Frauen und Märkte im Württemberg der Frühen Neuzeit’, in R Johanna Regnath & Christine Rudolph (eds.), Frauen und Geld. Wider die ökonomische Unsichtbarkeit von Frauen (Königstein: Ulrike Helmer Verlag), 43-86.

2007. ‘Can We Rehabilitate the Guilds? A Sceptical Re-Appraisal’, Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, 0745.
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2008. ‘Rehabilitating the Guilds: a Reply’, Economic History Review, 61:1, 175-182.
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2006. ‘“Eine sauere Nahrung”. Frauen, Märkte, und soziales Kapital im frühmodernen Deutschland’, Jahrbuch für Regionalgeschichte, 24, 13-36.

2004. ‘How Does Social Capital Affect Women? Guilds and Communities in Early Modern Germany’, American Historical Review, 109, 325-359.      Direct link to article

2004. ‘Guilds, Efficiency and Social Capital: Evidence from German Proto-Industry’, Economic History Review, 57, 286-333.
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2004. ‘Women and Labour Markets in Early Modern Germany’, Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 2004:2, 25-60.

2003. ‘Frauen und “Zweite Leibeigenschaft” in Böhmen’, Bohemia, 44, 100-145 (with Jeremy Edwards).
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2003. A Bitter Living: Women, Markets, and Social Capital in Early Modern Germany  (Oxford).   UK/Europe      USA/Canada      Sample
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2000. ‘Women and the Second Serfdom: Evidence from Early Modern Bohemia’, Journal of Economic History, 60, 961-994 (with Jeremy Edwards).

1998. ‘Zeny a “Druhé Nevolnictví” v Cechách na Pocátku Novoveku’ [Women and the 'Second Serfdom' in Bohemia in the Early Modern Period], Historická Demografie, 22, 5-49 (with Jeremy Edwards).
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1990. ‘Women and Proto-industrialisation in a Corporate Society’, in W. R. Lee and Pat Hudson (eds.), Women’s Work, Family Income and the Structure of the Family in Historical Perspective (Manchester), 76-103.