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The Economic History of Work and Family
Art: Matilda of Flanders, Bayeux Tapestry 4 variant, 1070 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Prof. Anne McCants
- Term
- Spring 2005
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 4 other files · 3 web pages
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About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21H.927J The Economic History of Work and Family, Spring 2005, Prof. Anne McCants — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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- On Household Bargaining: Theoretical Models and Empirical Evidence Download
- Changes in Non-Food Household Expenditure between Sexes by Marital and Work Status Download
- Final Results - On Household Bargaining: Theoretical Models and Empirical Evidence Download
- On Household Bargaining: Theoretical Models and Empirical Evidence Download
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Film Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s A Midwife’s Tale . This film, based on the path-breaking book of the same title, offers a powerful narrative recreation of one historical moment. We will use this moment to help contextualize the social scientific questions addressed in next week’s reading.
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Lecture 3: The New Economics of the Family
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Lecture 4: The ‘New’ Global Economy Women’s work: the care and cleaning of a society.
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Lecture 5: Family Labor and the Standard of Living in the Industrial Revolution Male/female wage gaps, capital accumulation and household welfare.
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Lecture 6: “His and Hers: Gender, Consumption and Household Accounting in 18th Century England.” (Special lecture by Amanda Vickery) Sponsored by the Sahin Lecture Series in the History Section and by the Program in Women’s Studies.
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Lecture 7: Continuity and/or Change Since the Middle Ages; or How did we Get Here?
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Lecture 8: Asian Women’s Work The gendered division of labor in Late Imperial China.
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Lecture 9: Black Women’s Work The division of labor by gender and race in America.
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Lecture 10: Use class time to work on individual research projects. Students should also schedule individual appointment times with me during the preceding week to discuss the topic for your project.
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Lecture 11: Gender, Class and Networks of Care
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Lecture 12: The Problem of Reproduction in an Early Modern Economy Reproductive technologies in Late Imperial China.
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Lecture 13: The Problem of Reproduction in the Present The connection between reproduction and inequality in the labor market.
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Anne McCants, 21H.927J The Economic History of Work and Family, Spring 2005.
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