In the articles The Female Labour Market in London in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries by Peter Earle and Segmentation in the Pre-Industrial Labour Market: Women’s Work in the Dutch Textile Industry 1581-1810 by Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk, both Earle and Meerkerk utilize various methodologies in order to analyze and draw conclusions on of their distinct queries. The two articles introduce diverse pieces of information involving the role of women in the workforce during periods ranging from the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries in distinct parts of Europe. However, Earle and Meerkerk’s articles, while investigating some similar aspects of women in the labourforce, draw upon different subject questions, methodologies, and
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Clark introduces the concept of a ‘golden age’ for women in the workforce and although the exact date of this time remains elusive, as Earle states, Clark roughly identifies the time occurring in the later seventeenth century (Earle 328). Clark also focuses her theory of the ‘golden age’ in London, and Earle centers his argument on information from London during the late seventeenth to early eighteenth centuries in order to accurately disprove her theory. If Earle had perhaps, analyzed another time period or location, his argument would be misdirected and far less …show more content…
Meerkerk supplies the reader with multiple historians and their own ideas on women in the workforce in order to show the contrasting views historians pose and allows Meerkerk to introduce her general argument for her paper. Meerkerk’s mention of Katrina Honeyman and Jordan Goodman’s study of the dual labour market approach and women’s work allows her to introduce part of her main argument she will be discussing, but then divulges into an analysis of women’s work that goes much further (Meerkerk 193). Meerkerk main subject is to analyze the segmentation of the labour market and to prove how gender division of labour was not stable and dynamic during the seventeenth and eighteenth century as well as how economic change affected women’s role in the
Clark introduces the concept of a ‘golden age’ for women in the workforce and although the exact date of this time remains elusive, as Earle states, Clark roughly identifies the time occurring in the later seventeenth century (Earle 328). Clark also focuses her theory of the ‘golden age’ in London, and Earle centers his argument on information from London during the late seventeenth to early eighteenth centuries in order to accurately disprove her theory. If Earle had perhaps, analyzed another time period or location, his argument would be misdirected and far less …show more content…
Meerkerk supplies the reader with multiple historians and their own ideas on women in the workforce in order to show the contrasting views historians pose and allows Meerkerk to introduce her general argument for her paper. Meerkerk’s mention of Katrina Honeyman and Jordan Goodman’s study of the dual labour market approach and women’s work allows her to introduce part of her main argument she will be discussing, but then divulges into an analysis of women’s work that goes much further (Meerkerk 193). Meerkerk main subject is to analyze the segmentation of the labour market and to prove how gender division of labour was not stable and dynamic during the seventeenth and eighteenth century as well as how economic change affected women’s role in the