Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- List of Tables
- Introduction
- 1 Widows, Family and Poor Relief in England from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century
- 2 Survival Strategies of Poor Women in Two Localities in Guipuzcoa (Northern Spain) in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- 3 Women, Work and Survival Strategies in Urban Northern Europe before the First World War
- 4 Women, Households and Independence under the Old English Poor Laws
- 5 The Economic Strategies of Widows in Switzerland from the mid-Nineteenth to the mid-Twentieth Century
- 6 Mexico: Women and Poverty (1994–2004): Progresa-Oportunidades Conditional Cash Transfer Programme
- 7 Gender and Migration in the Pyrenees in the Nineteenth Century: Gender-Differentiated Patterns and Destinies
- 8 Women and Property in Eighteenth-Century Austria: Separate Property, Usufruct and Ownership in Different Family Configurations
- Notes
- Index
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- List of Tables
- Introduction
- 1 Widows, Family and Poor Relief in England from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century
- 2 Survival Strategies of Poor Women in Two Localities in Guipuzcoa (Northern Spain) in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- 3 Women, Work and Survival Strategies in Urban Northern Europe before the First World War
- 4 Women, Households and Independence under the Old English Poor Laws
- 5 The Economic Strategies of Widows in Switzerland from the mid-Nineteenth to the mid-Twentieth Century
- 6 Mexico: Women and Poverty (1994–2004): Progresa-Oportunidades Conditional Cash Transfer Programme
- 7 Gender and Migration in the Pyrenees in the Nineteenth Century: Gender-Differentiated Patterns and Destinies
- 8 Women and Property in Eighteenth-Century Austria: Separate Property, Usufruct and Ownership in Different Family Configurations
- Notes
- Index
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- Female Economic Strategies in the Modern World , pp. 161 - 194Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014