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‘Elbow grease and yellow soap’: Housework time in working‐class households in late‐nineteenth and early twentieth‐century Britain

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Housework is central to feminist calls for recognition of women's work, economic histories explaining the sexual division of labour, and claims regarding the progressive role of scientific knowledge. Yet little is known about the time it actually took. We address this lacuna.
Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries
wiley   +1 more source

Indian deindustrialization revisited: New data, estimates, and interpretations

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The fate of the handloom cotton textile industry is one of the most debated topics in the economic history of India. This paper presents novel employment estimates for cotton textile handweaving and spinning in the period 1800–1940. I put together plausible values for labour productivity and combine these with aggregate input usage to generate
Alexander Nagar
wiley   +1 more source

Educational Strategies in Children's Oral Health: A Critical Integrative Review on Pedagogical Foundations

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Dental Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives This study aims to critically analyse whether the pedagogical methods employed in promoting children's oral health are anchored in theoretical and methodological frameworks in education, and to what extent this anchoring manifests itself.
Victória Saraiva Martins   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interactions of land use and climate change disproportionately impact Lepidoptera of the five major insect orders

open access: yesInsect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Land use and climate change are two major environmental pressures that interact to impact insect biodiversity. We compared the impacts of land use alone and of the interaction between land use and climate change on the five major insect orders. Most impacted were the Lepidoptera, showing 91% lower total abundance in sites of high‐intensity agriculture ...
Kyra Nancie Smith   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Connectivity and Selective Rural Migration

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does infrastructure shape rural development? Using household panel data from a nationally representative sample of Chinese villages, matched to high‐resolution highway maps, we find that road expansion between 2000 and 2015 operates mainly through reallocation, with less productive farmers scaling down or exiting and more productive ...
Lin Ma   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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