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CARMEN SARASÚA
December 2015
Department of Economics and Economic History
Faculty of Economics and Business Studies
UniversitatAutònoma de Barcelona
08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain
[email protected]
34-935812316 (Office)
34-935812012 (fax)
I. EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts
Universidad Complutense, Madrid
(Contemporary History)
June, 1982
Master of Arts
New School for Social Research, New York
(Labor Economics)
6/10/88 with Honors
Doctor of Philosophy
European University Institute, Florence
(History)
Ph. D. Thesis: The rise of the wage Worker. Peasant
Families and the Organization of Work in Modern
Spain.23/01/96 with Distinction
II. CURRENT POSITION
1997 to present
Aug. 2016
June 2017
Associate Professor, accredited as Full Professor, Department of
Economics and Economic History, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
to
Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
III. PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2010
Visiting Professor, Universidad de La República (Uruguay)
2009
Visiting Fellow, Industrial and Labor Relations School, Cornell University
2007
Visiting Professor, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels
2006
Visiting Professor, Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey-Campus Puebla
(México)
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2002
Visiting Fellow, Mario Einaudi Centre for International Studies, Cornell
University
1996-1997
Teaching Assistant, Labor Relations School, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Teaching Assistant, Department of Economic History, U. Autònoma de
Barcelona
1995-1996
Lecturer, Center for International Studies, Ortega y Gasset Foundation (Madrid)
1994
Research Assistant, European University Institute (Florence, Italy)
1989-1991
Spanish Institute of Foreign Trade (ICEX), Research and Publications
Department, Ministry of Finance
IV. FINANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS
2015-2018
International Network ‘Producing Change: Gender and Work in Early Modern
Europe’, financed by The Leverhulme Trust (IN-2015-021). Director:
Alexandra Shepard, U. of Glasgow.
2014-2017
Wages, Women’s Participation and Living Standards, 1750-1950. Financed by
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (HAR2013-47277-C2-1-P), Director.
2010-2012
Reconstructing the Female Activity Rate in Spain, 18th to 19th centuries.
Financed by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (HAR2009-11709), Director.
2010
Reconstructing the Female Activity Rate in Western Europe, 18th and 19th
centuries (Exploratory Workshop EW09-285–SCSS, Barcelona November 4-6).
Financed by the European Science Foundation (Standing Committee for Social
Sciences). Convenor: Carmen Sarasúa. Co-convenor: Jane Humphries (Oxford
U.)
2010-2011
Reconstructing the Female Activity Rate in the territories of the Crown of
Aragón, 1716-1816. Financed by Institut Català de les Dones (U-35/10),
Director.
2009-2013
UHE. Economic Institutions, Living Standards, Environment. Research Group
(SGR 962). Financed by AGAUR. Director.
2005-2010
Gender and Well-being: Interactions between Work, Family and Public Policies
(COST-A34). Financed by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and
European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research
(COST), directed by C. Borderías (UB).
2003-2005
Women’s work and union participation during Franco’s dictatorship (19401980). Financed by Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales. Director.
2001-2004
The socio-economic role of domestic service as a factor in European identity.
Financed by the European Comission, directed by A. Fauve-Chamoux (EHESS,
París).
2001-2003
Tensions of Europe: Technology and the making of 20th Century Europe.
Financed by the European Science Foundation. Directed by Johan Schot
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(Eindhoven University of Technology)
1993-1995
Gender and the construction of working time. Financed by the European
Comission, DG VII, directed by Olwen Hufton and Yota Kravaritou (European
University Institute)
V. BOOKS AND EDITED COLLECTIONS
2005
Land, shops and kitchens. Technology and the food chain in twentieth-century
Europe, Editor (with P. Scholliers and L. van Molle), CORN (Comparative Rural
History of the North Sea Area) Publication Series, Brepols.
2003
¿Privilegios o eficiencia? Mujeres y hombres en los mercados de trabajo, editor,
Editor (with L. Gálvez), Alicante: Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alicante.
Introduction: pp. 9-33.
1994
Criados, nodrizas y amos. El servicio doméstico en la formación del mercado de
trabajo madrileño, 1758-1868, Madrid, Siglo XXI.
VI. JOURNAL ARTICLES (SELECTED)
2014
“La desigualdad de género en el consumo familiar. Diferencias de género en la
España contemporánea (1850-1930)”, Áreas, 33, special issue devoted to ‘Gender
inequalities in Contemporary Spain’, ed. by C. Borderías y L. Gálvez. Revised and
expanded version of Borderías, Pérez-Fuentes and Sarasúa 2010. Also published
as Working Paper # 1411 of the Spanish Association of Economic History.
2012
“Off the Record. Reconstructing Women’s Labor Force Participation in the
European Past”, Feminist Economics, 18 (4): 39-67, with J. Humphries.
2008
“Technical innovations at the service of cheaper labour in pre-industrial Europe.
The Enlightened agenda to transform the gender division of labour in silk
manufacturing”, History and Technology, 24, 1: 23-39.
2005
“Criados y mozos en la organización histórica del trabajo agrario”, Introduction
and edition of an special issue on Farm servants, Historia Agraria, 35.
2003
“El oficio más molesto, más duro: el trabajo de las lavanderas en la España de los
siglos XVIII al XX”, Historia Social, 45: 53-77. Translated into English as “’The
Hardest, Most Unpleasant Profession’: The Work of Laundresses in Eighteenth-,
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Spain”, in A SOCIAL HISTORY OF
SPANISH LABOUR. NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CLASS, POLITICS AND
GENDER, edited by J. A. Piqueras and V. Sanz Rozalén, Berghahn, 2008, pp. 6490.
2002
“Aprendiendo a ser mujeres: las escuelas de niñas en la España del siglo XIX”,
Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea, 24: 281-297.
2000
“El análisis histórico del trabajo agrario: cuestiones recientes”, Historia Agraria,
22: 79-96.
“¿De la vagancia al paro? Las raíces históricas de un concepto”, Revista de
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Occidente, 235: 65-84.
1999
“La evolución reciente en nuestra comprensión del funcionamiento económico de
las familias”, Introduction to Bina Agarwal “Negociación y relaciones de género:
dentro y fuera de la unidad doméstica”, Historia Agraria, 17.
1998
“Understanding intra-family inequalities. The Montes de Pas, Spain, 1700- 1900”,
The History of the Family, 3, 2: 173-197.
1997
“The role of the State in shaping women’s and men’s entrance into the labour
market. Spain in the 18th and 19th centuries”, Continuity and Change, 12 (3):
347-371.
1995
“La industria del encaje en el Campo de Calatrava”, Arenal. Revista de Historia
de las mujeres, 2 (2): 151-174.
1994
“Las emigraciones temporales en una economía de minifundio: los Montes de
Pas, 1758-1888", Boletín de la Asociación de Demografía Histórica, XII-2/3:
163-179.
VII. BOOK CHAPTERS
forthcoming “The Economy of Work”, Ch. 1 of A Cultural History of Work in the Age of
Enlightenment, vol. 4 of the Cultural History of Work Series, edited by
Deborah Simonton and Anne Montenach, Bloomsbury Academic.
2013
2010
2008
“¿Activos desde cuándo? La edad de acceso al mercado de trabajo en la España
del siglo XVIII”, in EL TRABAJO INFANTIL EN ESPAÑA (1700-1950),
edited by J. M. Borrás, Icaria, pp. 63-88. (Also published as Working paper No.
1309 of the Spanish Association of Economic History).
“Gender Inequalities in Family Consumption: Spain 1850-1930” (with C.
Borderías and P. Pérez-Fuentes), in GENDER INEQUALITIES,
HOUSEHOLDS AND THE PRODUCTION OF WELLBEING IN MODERN
EUROPE, edited by T. Addabbo, M-P. Arrizabalaga, C. Borderías and A.
Owens, Ashgate, pp. 179-195.
“Trabajo y niveles de vida en el franquismo. Un estado de la cuestión desde una
perspectiva de género” (with C. Molinero), in LA HISTORIA DE LAS
MUJERES. PERSPECTIVAS ACTUALES, edited by C. Borderías, Icaria y
AEIHM, pp. 309-354.
2006
“Trabajo y trabajadores en la España del siglo XIX”, Ch. 14 of HISTORIA
ECONÓMICA DE ESPAÑA, SIGLOS XIX Y XX, edited by A. González
Enciso and J. M. Matés, Ariel, pp. 413-433.
2005
“Were servants paid according to their productivity?”, in DOMESTIC
SERVICE AND THE FORMATION OF EUROPEAN IDENTITY.
UNDERSTANDING THE GLOBALIZATION OF DOMESTIC WORK, 16TH21ST CENTURIES, edited by A. Fauve-Chamoux, Peter Lang, pp. 517-541.
2005
“The rise of a food market in European history” (with P. Scholliers),
Introduction to LAND, SHOPS AND KITCHENS. TECHNOLOGY AND
THE FOOD CHAIN IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE, edited by C.
Sarasúa, P. Scholliers and L. van Molle, Comparative Rural History of the
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North Sea Area (CORN) Publication Series, Brepols, pp.13- 29.
2004
“Una política de empleo antes de la Industrialización: paro, estructura de la
ocupación y salarios en la obra de Campomanes”, in CAMPOMANES Y SU
OBRA ECONÓMICA, edited by F. Comín and P. Martín Aceña, Madrid:
Instituto de Estudios Fiscales, pp.171-191.
2002
“El acceso de niños y niñas a los recursos educativos en la España rural del
siglo XIX”, in EL NIVEL DE VIDA EN LA ESPAÑA RURAL, SIGLOS
XVIII-XX, edited by J. M. Martínez Carrión, Alicante: Publicaciones de la
Universidad de Alicante, pp. 549-609. Translated into French as "Les familles
rurales et la scolarisation de leurs enfants au XIXe siècle en Espagne”, in F.
Boudjaaba (ed.), LE TRAVAIL ET LA FAMILLE EN MILIEU RURAL,
XVIe-XXIe SIÈCLE, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2014, pp. 129-150.
“Leaving Home to help the family? Male and female temporary migrants in 18th
and 19th century Spain”, in WOMEN, GENDER AND LABOUR
MIGRATION. HISTORICAL AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES, edited by
Pamela Sharpe, Routledge, pp. 29-59.
2001
“Upholding status: the diet of a noble family in early 19th century La Mancha”,
in FOOD, DRINK AND IDENTITY. COOKING, EATING AND DRINKING
IN EUROPE SINCE THE MIDDLE AGES, edited by P. Scholliers, Oxford,
Berg, pp. 37-61.
2000
“Migrazioni femminile nella Spagna dei secoli XVIII-XIX: serve, balie ed altre
lavoratrice”, in LA MONTAGNA MEDITERRANEA: UNA FABBRICA D’
UOMINI? Mobilità e migrazioni in una prospettiva comparata (secoli XV-XX),
edited by D. Albera and P. Corti, Gribaudo, pp. 193-209.
VIII. BOOK REVIEWS
2014
Céline Schoeni, Travail féminin: Retour à l’ordre! L’offensive contre le travail
des femmes durant la crise économique des années 1930, Feminist Economics.
2011
Margarita Vilar Rodríguez, Los salarios del miedo. Mercado de trabajo y
crecimiento económico en España durante el franquismo, Revista de Historia
Industrial, 47: 217-221.
2003
M. E. Turner, J. V. Beckett, B. Afton, Farm Production in England, 1700-1914,
Historia Agraria, 31: 217-221.
2002
Gérard Béaur, Histoire agraire de la France au XVIIIe siècle. Inerties et
changements dans les campagnes françaises entre 1715 et 1815, Historia Agraria,
28: 265-270.
2001
Carlos Arenas Posadas, Empresa, mercados, mina y mineros. Río Tinto, 18731936, Revista de Historia Económica, 2: 459-465.
Agustín González Enciso y Rafael Torres (eds.), Tabaco y economía en el siglo
XVIII, Hispania, LXI/3, 209: 1143-1147.
1999
Montserrat Carbonell, Sobreviure a Barcelona. Dones, pobresa i assistència al
segle XVIII, Recerques, 39: 212-215.
1997
Adelina García Muñoz, Los que no pueden vivir de lo suyo. Trabajo y cultura en
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el Campo de Calatrava, Noticiario de Historia Agraria, 13: 263-266.
Catherine Omnès, Ouvrières parisiennes. Marchés du travail et trajectoires
professionalles au 20e siècle, Revista de Historia Industrial, 12: 265-269.
1993
Nelson Lourenço, Família rural e indústria. Mudança social na regiâo de Leiria,
Revista de Historia Económica, XI (1): 234-238.
1992
Ramón Lanza, Población y familia campesina en el Antiguo Régimen. Liébana,
siglos XVI-XIX, Revista de Historia Económica, X (2): 326-328.
1990
Andrés Barrera, Casa, herencia y familia en la Cataluña rural, Revista de Historia
Económica, VIII (3): 689-692.
IX. SELECTED GRANTS
2011
ARCS-DGR 2011 Grant for the organization of Conferences of special
scientific interest: 2012 Conference of the International Association for
Feminist Economics, Barcelona (June 27-29)
2010
AGAUR Post-doctorate Research scholarship (2010-BE1-00097),
Seminario de Historia Social de la Población, U. of Castilla-La Mancha
(September to October, 2010)
2007
European Union Erasmus Program for the mobility of EU faculty
members, Visiting Professor, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels
2007
ARCS-DGR 2007 (00083) Grant for the organization of Conferences of
special scientific interest: Gender and Wellbeing. Social statistics and
public policies (COST Project)
2002
ARCS-DGR 2002 (00267) Grant for the organization of Conferences of
special scientific interest: 2002 Conference on Agriculture and Food.
Technology and the making of Europe in the 20th century (Tensions of
Europe Research Project)
2002
Spanish Ministry of Education, Mobility Program for University
professors, Visiting Fellow, Mario Einaudi Center for International
Studies, Cornell University
1990-1994
Salvador de Madariaga scholarship, Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
European University Institute, Florence
1987-1988
Fulbright Scholarship, Economics Department, New School for Social
Research, NYC
X. EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARDS
2009 to present
Associate Editor, Feminist Economics. 2008-2009 Editorial Board
member
2008 to present
Editorial Board member, Continuity and Change
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2013 to present
Advisory Board member, Historia Agraria. 2006 to 2010 Editor,
2003 to 2005 Co-Editor.
2005 to present
Advisory Board member, History of Work Book Series, published
by the Work and Gender Group (TIG), University of Barcelona
and Icaria Editorial
2004 to present
Advisory Board member, University of Cordoba Social History
Book Series
XI. BOARDS OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
2009 to 2015
Board member, International Association of Feminist Economics
2011 to 2015
Vice-president, Spanish Association of Economic History. 2009
to 2011 Board member, 2015 General Secretary elect.
1998-2002
Secretary and Treasurer, Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria
2009-2011
Board member, Asociación Española de Investigación en Historia
de las Mujeres (AEIHM)
1999 to present
Board member, European Graduate School for Training in
Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER) U. of
Groningen and N. W. Posthumus Institute
XII. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2015
Member of reviewer panel of Figuerola Institute of History and Social Sciences,
Carlos III University (Oct.)
‘Women’s work and structural change. Manufactures in 18th-century rural Spain’,
paper presented at The Occupational Structure of Britain 1379-1911 Research
Group, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure,
University of Cambridge (Jan. 19), and at All Souls College (Jan.18).
2014
Réseaux, Carrières, Consommation: les femmes dans l’économie (Espagne, XVIIIeXXIe siècles), Keynote speaker, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 (Oct. 9-10).
'Women's work across time and place: establishing the foundations for comparisons
in pre-census Europe', Workshop at University of Glasgow (Sept. 11 and 12).
‘Industry before Industrialization. The organization of manufacturing work in preindustrial Spain’, panel co-organized at XI Conference of the Spanish Association
of Economic History (Madrid, Sept. 4-5).
Member, Working Group on Social Economics at UAB (GEDEF d'Economia i
Empresa).
‘Feminist Economics’ Round Table, Workshop on Social and Solidarity Economics,
Fundació Autònoma Solidària (Barcelona April 9-11)
2013
‘El peso de las manufacturas en la estructura del empleo española del siglo XVIII’,
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paper and Panel co-organizer ‘Industry before Industrialization. The organization of
manufacturing work in pre-industrial Spain’, preparatory session for XI Conference
of the Spanish Association of Economic History (UAM, Madrid, Dec. 13)
‘Reconstructing the economic activity in 18th century Spain is possible: the
Memoriales of the Ensenada Cadaster’, Workshop: ‘Interrogar al territorio. La
encuesta, el catastro y la cartografía como fenómeno y como fuente histórica’, CSIC
(Madrid, Dec. 2)
Guest lecturer, Series on ‘Historical Crises. The roots of the current economic
crisis’, Instituto Jerónimo de Uztáriz (Pamplona, Nov. 12)
Keynote speaker, ‘Female servants in the Spanish literature of the 18th and 19th
centuries. Work, savings, and consumption’, Workshop organized by the
Association of Spanish Literature, Universidad de Córdoba (Oct. 2-4)
Guest lecturer, Fundación Baltasar Garzón (Torres, Jaén, July 22).
‘¿Activos desde cuándo? La edad de acceso al mercado de trabajo de niñas y niños
en la España del siglo XVIII’, paper delivered at X Conference of the Asociación de
Demografía Histórica (ADEH) (Albacete, June 18-20)
Appointed Reference researcher, Universitary Institute “The Court in Europe”
(IULCE), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
‘Women and Men in Economic History: Privilege or Efficiency?’ IX Workshop
Economy and Society, Department of Economic Theory and History, University of
Málaga (April 9).
Guest lecture at ‘From Sección femenina to the feminist movement. Women,
Francoism and Political Transition in Spain’, Department of Contemporary History,
UAB (Barcelona, March 8).
Keynote speaker, ‘Rural manufactures in 18th century Spain: lace’, ‘Els tallers de
brodats a Sant Llorenç des Cardassar. Dones, treball i manufactura’, Sant Llorenç
des Cardassar (Mallorca, March 4)
2012
IV Course on Gender and Public Policies: “From 1812 to 2012. Two centuries of
changes in the legal, social and economic situation of Spanish women”, Universidad
Internacional del Mar and U. of Murcia, Cehegín (July 17 and 18)
Member of the local organizer committee, 2012 Annual Conference of the
International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), Barcelona (June 27-29)
Guest speaker, ‘Towards an Economic History that acknowledges women’s work’,
Gender and Work in Early Modern Europe, Conference organized by the Gender &
Work project, directed by Maria Agren, The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters,
History and Antiquities (Stockholm, May 10-11)
‘¿Activos desde cuándo? La edad de acceso al mercado de trabajo de niñas y niños
en la España del siglo XVIII’, paper delivered at the XII Workshop on the History
of Work. ‘Child Work and Gender’, organized by TIG-UB (Barcelona, May 3-4)
‘The future of Economics: supply and demand of care’, Spring Economic History
Workshop, organized by the Cajamar and University of Almería chair, University of
Almería (April 17)
“The impact of corruption on economic activity”, 19th Conference of Students of Penal
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Law, University of Barcelona (March 22)
2011
Panel discussant, ‘Travail en famille, travail non rémunéré. Économies familiales,
normes et pratiques du travail productif non rémunéré en Europe du XVIe siècle à
nos jours’, Journée d’études international organized by Laboratoire ICT, Université
Paris Diderot-Paris 7 and GRHIS-IRIHS, U. de Rouen (Sept. 16)
Organizer, panel ‘Female Labor Participation Rates in Spain, 18th and 19th
centuries’, and paper “Economic activity when women’s work is taken into account:
textile manufactures in 18th century Spain”, X International Conference of the
Spanish Association of Economic History (AEHE), Universidad Pablo de Olavide,
(Carmona, Sept. 8-10)
IAFFE 2011 Annual Conference, Hangzhou (China) (June 24-26)
‘Peasant families and their children’ schooling in 19th century Spain’, paper
delivered at Journées d’étude ‘Travail, solidarités familiales et mobilité sociale dans
le monde rural’, co-organisées par le CERHIO et le GDR Sociétés rurales
européennes, Université Rennes 2 (May 19-20)
Guest lecture ‘Emplear mujeres para abaratar costes, El programa ilustrado para
feminizar la manufactura sedera’, Workshop ‘Vivir en las Luces: las mujeres en el
siglo XVIII’, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (El Ferrol, April 4-5)
2010
‘Leaving home to help the family? Impact of female and male migrants on their
families’ wellbeing, Spain 18th and 9th centuries’, Colloque ‘Le travail comme
ressource. Parcours individuels, mobilité et stretégies économiques dans les villes
d’Ancien régime’, Centre Maurice Halbwachs (CNRS-EHESS-ENS), financed by
the European Union Marie Curie Project MigrantWorkEuroLab (Paris, April 8)
(to present) Representative of the Faculty of Economics and Business at
Observatory for Gender Equality, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
‘Female Labor Force Participation in the European Past, c. 1600–1900’, paper
delivered at 8th European Social Science History Conference (Ghent, April 13-16).
Lecture ‘Caring for others. Introducing Feminist Economics’, Faculty of Economics
and Business Studies, University of León (March 8).
2009
“New vulnerabilities of women in the new world ‘order’”, lecture at India
International Centre, New Delhi (July 25).
‘Working harder but still poor. The ‘industrious revolution’ in 18th century Spain’,
paper delivered at session H4: Industrious women and children of the world? Jan de
Vries’ ‘industrious revolution’ as a conceptual tool for researching women’s and
children’s work in an international perspective, XVth World Economic History
Congress (Utrecht, Aug. 3-7).
Discussant, session ‘Engendering democracy and work’, COST Action A-34,
Gender and Wellbeing: Work, Families and Public Policies, Fifth Symposium:
‘Social Movements and Well Being’, International Institute of Social History
(Amsterdam, March 4-7).
Round table on ‘Equality in the labor market’. Fifth Workshop on Gender Equality.
Diputación de Alicante (Feb. 27)
2008
“Women, Mena, and Technology in the Silk Industry, Spain 18th and 19th
centuries”, paper delivered at Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
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Conference (Lisbon, Oct. 10-14)
‘Reconstruction of economic activity in Spain, 19th and 20th centuries’, paper
delivered at IX Congress of the Asociación Española de Historia Económica
(Murcia, Sept 9-12)
Lecture “The new impoverishment of women and the urgent need for redistributive
policies”, Women’s Worlds 2008, Universidad Complutense (Madrid, July 3-9).
Chair, session ‘Care arrangements in Europe’, COST Action A-34 Gender and
Wellbeing: Work, Families and Public Policies, Symposium: ‘Gender and Wellbeing: the role of institutions from past to present’, CSIC (Madrid, June 24-27)
Discussant, Round Table ‘Female Labour Market Participation and Economic
Growth’, and paper ‘Gender gap in agricultural wages, Spain 1750-1900’, panel
‘Gender Wage Gaps Revisited: Social, Institutional and Market Processes’, Seventh
European Social Science History Conference (Lisbon, Feb. 26-28)
(to present) Editorial Board member, Continuity & Change
International Workshop ‘Reconstructing the Female Activity Rate’ (UAB,
Barcelona).
2007
Lecture ‘For an historical analysis of families as consumers’, International Congress
on Families and social organization in Europe and America, 15th to 20th centuries,
organized by Working group on Familia y Élite de Poder de la Universidad de
Murcia and Working Group on Historia Social de la Población de la Universidad de
Castilla-La Mancha (December 12)
Lecture “Technical innovations at the service of cheaper labour in pre-industrial
Europe. The Enlightened agenda to transform the gender division of labour in silk
manufacturing”, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) (México
DF, Nov. 2).
‘The gender gap in family consumption, Spain 1850-1930’, paper delivered at panel
‘Workers and consumption in Spain and Latin America’, Third International
Conference of the Mexican Association of Economic History (Cuernavaca, Oct, 2931)
‘The gender gap in consumption, Spain, 1850-1930’ (with C. Borderías and P.
Pérez-Fuentes), COST Action A-34 Gender and Wellbeing: Work, Families and
Public Policies, Third Symposium: ‘Production and Distribution of Well-Being into
the Family: Strategies of Remunerated and Non-remunerated Labour and
Consumption Patterns’, Universidad de Barcelona (June 25-27).
Discussant, Workshop ‘Obstacles to economic growth in Latin America and Spain,
1790-1850’, Fundación Ramón Areces (Madrid, May 18-19)
Discussant of panel ‘Wellbeing and Inheritance systems. Comparing life courses of
heirs and non-heirs’, COST Action A-34, Gender and Wellbeing: Work, Families
and Public Policies, Second Symposium: ‘The transmission of Well-Being:
Marriage Strategies and Inheritance Systems in Europe (17th-20th centuries)’,
University of Minho (Guimaraes, April, 25-28)
2006
(to 2010) Editor, Historia Agraria, Journal of the Spanish Association of Agrarian
History (SEHA)
Organizer, panel 14 ‘Technology, Gender and the Division of Labour’, XIV
10
International Economic History Congress (Helsinki, Aug. 21-25). Paper ‘Technical
innovation at the service of cheaper labor in pre-industrial Europe. The Enlightened
agenda to transform the gender division of labor in silk manufacturing’.
Discussant, panel ‘Gender discrimination in the labor markets’, Workshop ‘Income
inequality as an economic and political problem: Gender and Territory’, organized
by Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas and Fundación BBVA, U.
Pablo de Olavide (Sevilla, March 31).
Organizer, panel ‘Work and Living standards in Franco’s distatorship’, and paper
‘Female Labor Force Participation rates in the first decades of Franco’s
dictatorship’, XII International Conference of the Spanish Association of Women’s
History (AEIHM) (Barcelona, Oct. 19-21)
2005
(to 2010) National representative of Spain, COST Action A34 Management
Committee: “Gender and Wellbeing: Interactions between Work, Family and Public
Policies”, financed by European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and
Technical Research (COST) and the European Science Foundation.
‘Male and female wages in 19th century province of Barcelona’ (with C. Borderías),
VIII Conference of the Spanish Association of Economic History (AEHE)
(Santiago de Compostela, Sept. 13-16)
Guest lecturer, ‘Rise and decline of rural industries in Majorca, 18th to 19th
centuries’, U. de les Illes Balears, Majorca (November 25)
Discussant, panel on ‘Economía alimentaria’, XI Conference of the Sociedad
Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (Aguilar de Campóo, June 15-18).
Member of organizing committee, Conference ‘Joan Scott and the feminist
historiography in Spain’, Spanish Association of Women’s History (AEIHM)
(Madrid, May 6-7).
(to present) Member, General Board of ESTER, European Graduate School for
Training in Economic and Social Historical Research.
2004
Chair, session “Gendered Cultures of Invention”, 45 Meeting of the Society for the
History of Technology (SHOT), Amsterdam (October 8-10)
Lecture ‘Proto-Industrial textile manufactures in 18th and 19th centuries La Mancha.
Sources and methodologies’, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha y Seminario de
Historia Social de la Población, Albacete (Oct. 28).
Table ronde ‘Les acquis du Servant Project’, Bilans et perspectives du Servant
Project. Les lendemains d’un réseau européen, European Network on the SocioEconomic role of Domestic Service as a factor of European Identity, EHESS (Paris,
May 13-14)
(to present) Board member, Social Agricultural History Series, University of
Córdoba.
2003
‘Measuring labour productivity in historical agriculture: a critical view’, paper
delivered at Colloque ‘Production et productivité agricoles dans le monde
occidental (XVIe-XXe siècles)’, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
(INRA) (Paris, Dec. 18-20).
‘Were servants paid according to their productivity?’ paper delivered at Munich
Conference ‘Models of Domestic Service’, European Network on the Socio-
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Economic role of Domestic Service as a factor of European Identity organized by J.
Komlos, U. of Munich (Sept. 11-13)
Organizer (with P. Scholliers), ‘Agriculture and Food Workshop’, Project Tensions
of Europe. Technology and the making of twentieth century Europe (Barcelona
March 27-30).
2002
Visiting scholar, Cornell University, Einaudi Center for European Studies
(September to December)
Organizer, Workshop ‘Domestic Service and the Evolution of the Law’, European
Network on the Socio-Economic role of Domestic Service as a factor of European
Identity (Barcelona, Dec. 12-15)
Discussant, IX Simposio de Historia Económica, UAB (Barcelona June 6-7).
2001
Organizer, panel ‘Women and Men in the labor markets. The historical evolution of
entrance and internal mobility mechanisms’ (with L. Gálvez), VII Congress of the
Spanish Association of Economic History (AEHE) (Zaragoza, Sept. 19-21).
1999
(to present) General Board of ESTER, European Graduate School for Training in
Economic and Social Historical Research.
Discussant, Workshop Wage Systems and Industrialisation in Europe, 19th-20th
centuries, Foundation Les Trailles (April 7-11).
Discussant, panel ‘From agrarian and female underemployment to present day
unemployment’, Workshop “Raíces históricas de los problemas de la economía
actual. El legado del modelo castizo de desarrollo económico”, Real Academia de
Ciencias Morales y Políticas (Madrid, April 8-9).
1998
‘Migrazioni femminile nella Spagna dei secoli XVIII-XIX: serve, balie e altre
lavoratrice’, Workshop La montagna mediterránea: una fabbrica d’uomini? Mobilità
e migrazioni in una prospettiva comparata, secoli XV-XX (Cuneo, Oct. 8-10).
‘Leaving home to help the family? Temporary Migrants in 18th century Spain’, XII
International Economic History Congress (Madrid, Aug.24-28).
1995
‘Becoming wage workers. The role of the State in shaping men’s and women’s
entrance into the labor market’, Panel ‘Family and Gender: Women’s Work and
Family Careers in a comparative perspective’, Twentieth Anniversary Meeting of
the Social Science History Association (Chicago, Nov. 16-19)
.
XIII. ASSESSMENTS
RESEARCH PROJECTS: European Science Foundation, European Research
Council, FONCYT (Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica,
Argentina), Comisión Sectorial de Investigación Científica de la Universidad de La
República (Uruguay), Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft (Austria), Agencia Nacional de
Evaluación de Proyectos (ANEP) del MICINN, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium),
Regional Government of Madrid, Agencia de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca
(AGAUR), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad Mayor de San Simón
(Bolivia).
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ACADEMIC JOURNALS: The Journal of Economic History, Economic History
Review, Historia Agraria, Historia Industrial, Revista de Historia Económica, European
History Quarterly, The History of the Family, Continuity and Change, Estudios de
Historia Social Agraria, Investigaciones de Historia Económica, Feminist Economics,
Food & History, Recerques, Revista Española de Estudios Agrosociales y Pesqueros,
Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Huelva, Ayer Revista de Historia
Contemporánea, Revista de Demografía Histórica.
XIV. POSITIONS SERVED AT EUROPEAN SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS
2014-2016. European Research Council Starting Grants evaluation. Panel Member for
the panel SH6–The Study of the Human Past (appointed June 2014)
2014-2015. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions "Individual fellowships" (IF). Reviewer
in Scientific Panel ECO/SOC (appointed September 2014)
Member of Pool of Reviewers, European Science Foundation (May 1, 2009 to 30 April
2012)
Reviewer of Research Project The Real Competition? Professional Accomplishment of
Women and Men in the 19th and 20th Centuries (EW08-275), European Science
Foundation (2010)
Member of Review College, 2010 EUROCORES Themes proposals
Member of Review Panel, European Science Foundation EUROCORES Programme
“Inventing Europe. Technology and the Making of Europe, 1850 to the Present” (June
2006 to September 2010)
National Representative of Spain in the Management Committee of COST Action A34:
“Gender and Wellbeing: Interaction between Work, Family and Public Policies”
(EUROPEAN COOPERATION IN THE FIELD OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL
RESEARCH, COST, and European Science Foundation (2005 to 2010)
XV. DIRECTION OF PhD THESES
Lluís Virós: Empresa, treball i innovació tecnológica durant el franquisme. El districte
industrial de Manresa.
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales
Defended December 3, 2012
María Camou: Las instituciones del mercado de trabajo en dos ramas de la industria
uruguaya, 1900-1960 (Co-director: Luis Bértola, U. de la República, Uruguay)
Universidad de La República (Uruguay), Facultad de Ciencias Sociales
Defended July 26, 2010
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Luisa Muñoz: Los Mercados de trabajo en las industrias marítimas de Galicia. Una
perspectiva histórica, 1870-1936 (Co-director: Joam Carmona, U. de Santiago)
Universidad de Barcelona, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales
Defended January 15, 2003
Antoni Luchetti: Canvi Tecnològic i Treball Portuari. Els casos de Barcelona, Marsella
i Genova (Co-director: Carles Sudrià, U. de Barcelona)
Universidad de Barcelona, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales
Defended December 3, 2001
In progress:
Lei Shi: The dream and the reality: the rural-urban immigration to Shanghai (19271937). Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y
Empresariales.
Cristian Paul Naranjo Navas: The Great Depression in Ecuador, 1927-1937. Wages and
prices. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y
Empresariales
Elías Gaona: Salarios y organización del trabajo en la zona minera de Real del Monte y
Pachuca (México) en los siglos XVIII y XIX.
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales.
Margarita López Antón: La organización del trabajo en un núcleo industrial del siglo
XIX: Tarrasa. Tasas de actividad y salarios.
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales.
Alberto Morán: La organización del trabajo en la Asturias del siglo XVIII. Familia y
mercado.
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales.
XVI. PRESS ARTICLES
La culpa del paro es de los trabajadores (con L.Benería), El País, 24/11/2009
¿A quién afecta el recorte del gasto? (con L.Benería), El País, 28/10/2010
Crímenes económicos contra la humanidad (con L. Benería), El País, 29/03/2011
XVII. MASTER AND DOCTORAL COURSES
2011 to present
Coordinator of Doctoral Program on Economic History, Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona
2008 to present
“Transformation and changes in factor markets: the labor market”, Master
Program in Economic History offered by UB-UAB-UZ
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2010
Visiting professor, Themes in the History of Work, Master Program,
Universidad de la República, Uruguay (July)
2009
Research Design Course, European Graduate School for Training in
Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER)
Master in Women’s Studies, Gender and Citizenship, UB-UAB
Guest Lecturer, ‘Gender History and Economic History’, Lecture Series
Grandes maestros y nuevos valores en Historia contemporánea, InterUniversitary Master in Contemporary History (UIMP, Santander, July 14)
1999-2008
Interuniversitary Doctoral Program UAB-UB in Economic History
2007
Erasmus Visiting professor, Doctoral Program, Vrije Unitersiteit Brussels
(Belgium).
2006
Visiting profesor, MBA Program, Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey,
Campus Puebla, México (September 18-23)
Summer University, Women’s Studies Program, Universitat de les Illes
Balears
Programa de Doctorado Interuniversitario y Master en Historia Social y
Política, Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, Baeza
Marie Curie European Doctoral Program, Universidad Pablo de Olavide
‘Methdological problems in historical research of labor markets’, I Ciclo
de Conferencias, Doctoral program ‘Europa, el Mundo Mediterráneo y su
difusión atlántica. Teorías y métodos para la investigación’, U. Pablo de
Olavide (Sevilla, April 3)
2005
Summer Courses, Universidad de Cantabria
2004
Programa de Doctorado, Departamento de Historia Moderna y
Contemporánea, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
“Gender and Work in the Information society”, U. de Castilla la Mancha,
Albacete.
2003
VII Universitat d’Estiu d’Estudis de Gènere, Universitat de les Illes
Balears
Programa de Doctorado de Calidad “Economía, Trabajo, producción:
claves históricas y teóricas de la distribución mundial de la riqueza”,
Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Sevilla)
(to 2005) Director, Doctoral Program, Department of Economic History,
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
2001-2005
Servicio de Formación del Profesorado de la Consejería de Educación de
la Comunidad de Madrid
2001
Universitat de Girona, Centre de Recerca d’Història Rural
2000
“Women and Society in Contemporary Jaén, 19th and 20th centuries”,
Universidad de Jaén
“Agrarian History in Contemporary Spain: new approaches in the 90s”,
Universidad de Murcia and Universidad Internacional del Mar, Águilas
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Summer Course Els Juliols, Universitat de Barcelona
1999
Research Design Course, ESTER Program, Posthumus Institute,
Universiteit of Nijmegen
1998
XIV Curso Formación de Historiadores, Fundación Sánchez Albornoz,
Ávila.
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