Storia del lavoro, storia delle donne e di genere. Percorsi storiografici per l’Europa preindustriale

The present essays provides a historiographical overview of the last two decades in relation to the relationships between economic history and the history of women's work. The article adopts a transversal approach and discusses a range of crucial issues on women work and economics in preindustrial societies: women and guilds, economic and demographic growth and women's work, calculation of the FLFPR, "industrious revolution" and "little divergence". In addition it explores recent contributions from feminist economics research to the topic of the family economy (productive and reproductive work, care work and domestic work) and presents the GaW projects and the "verb-oriented" methodology.