René Kuczynski Prize 2004
awarded to Sheilagh Ogilvie, Reader in Economic History at the University
of Cambridge, for her book:
A Bitter Living. Women, Markets, and Social Capital in Early Modern Germany.
Oxford University Press 2003, ISBN 0198205546, 420 pages
Sheilagh Ogilvie's topical contribution to female work and
occupational activities of women in early modern Europe has been awarded
with the René Kuczynski Prize 2004.
Thie study "A Bitter Living. Women, Markets, and Social Capital in
Early Modern Germany" has a extraordinary dense empirical basis which
systematically exploits and compiles an impressive quantity of information
concerning female work from both qualitative and quantitative scources.
The nucleus of the work is a case study about the proto-industrialized region
of the Southern Black Forest, but her statement of the problem and discussion
of the results provides a valid contribution to the global discussion of
female work in early modern Europe. In addition to this the book also deals
with several general questions of proto-modern economic history, among them
the rerlationship between (global and local) markets to "non-market-institutions"
like state, commune, guild, etc.
Sheilagh Ogilvie
born October 7th, 1958 in Calgary, Canada; since 1999 Reader in Economic
History, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, UK.
Among her numerous publications is the study "State corporatism and
Proto-Industry. The Württemberg Black Forest, 1580-1797" (Cambridge
1997). Ogilvie plays an important role as editor of readers and anthologies
on German economic and social history in English language.
Links:
Review of "A Bitter Living" (in H-Net)
Curriculum
Vitae of Sheilagh Ogilvie
WebSite
of Sheilagh Ogilvie
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