Part I: Women, Work, Rights and the City.
Chapter 1: Women have Always Worked.
Chapter 2: The Gender of Work.
Chapter 3: Working Daughters, Wives, Mothers, Sisters, Widows.
Chapter 4: The “Decline Thesis” and the Guilds: An “Accordion Movement”?.
Chapter 5: From Globalisation to Industrialisation.
Chapter 6: Agency and Capabilities: North vs South?.
Chapter 7: The Right to Learn, the Right to Teach: Intellectual and Artistic Work as a Profession.
Part II: Women’s Jobs.
Chapter 8: Servants and Slaves.
Chapter 9: Caring and Feeding.
Chapter 10: Midwives.
Chapter 11: Bodies as Resources.
Part III: Workshops and Markets.
Chapter 12: Learning at Home and on the Shop Floor.
Chapter 13: Women, Families and Guilds: the French Exception.
Chapter 14: Silk and Skill.
Chapter 15: Printed Tracks.
Chapter 16: In the Marketplace.
Chapter 17: International Traders.
Part IV: Conclusions.
Chapter 18: Conclusions and Suggestions for Further Research.