Titlebook: Women, Work and Colonialism in the Netherlands and Java; Comparisons, Contras Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if appl

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,Contrasting Consumption: Household Income and Living Standards in the Netherlands and Java, 1870–19nd thus of the standard of living. Furthermore, investigating colonial connections in combination with a move away from an exclusive focus on male wage incomes offers an important new impulse to the wider debate on living standards in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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,Norms and Social Policies: Women’s and Child Labour Legislation and Education,estments in general education drastically increased in the metropole, but lagged seriously in the colony. Whereas the sociopolitical context led to concerns underpinned by similar ideologies, in the course of the late colonial period rhetoric diverged more and more in order to legitimise these differences.

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,Introduction: Women’s Work in the Netherlands and Java, 1830–1940, sets the stage for the rest of this book by illustrating how the metropole and the colony were in many ways similar at the beginning of the nineteenth century, but diverged notably in the course of the colonial period.

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2662-6497 their effects by focusing on developments in household labour in the Dutch Empire in the period 1830-1940. The changing role of households’, and particularly women’s, economic activities in the Netherlands and 978-3-030-10528-0Series ISSN 2662-6497 Series E-ISSN 2662-6500

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An Exceptional Empire? Dutch Colonialism in Comparative Perspective,resembled civilising missions in other empires, but stood out in terms of their relatively programmatic organisation, as well as in their disappointing results over time. All this nuances the traditional perception of Dutch imperialism as relatively indirect and benign, thus contextualising colonial

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,Conclusions: Women’s Work and Divergent Development in the Dutch Empire,(most prominently through the Cultivation System). This had implications not only for changes in women’s work in Java and the rest of the Dutch East Indies, but also for developments in the metropole.