Work, workplaces and mobility in preindustrial Italy

29 July 2025

Panel: Unveiling Female Agency: The Role of Women in Southern Europe Before Industrialization, World Economic History Congress, University of Lund (Sweden).

Convenors: Andrea Caracausi and Corine Maitte (Gustave Eiffel University)

Presentation:

• Andrea Caracausi, Verónica Gallego Manzanares (Paper) Gender and Labour in Early modern Italy: Urban and Rural perspectives.
• Cinzia Lorandini (Paper) Gendered Work in an Alpine Region: Perspectives on Women’s and Men’s Roles from Nineteenth Century Trentino.

7 may 2025

Panel: Oltre il legame biologico. Famiglie intenzionali, di servizio e sociali nell’Italia d’età moderna (XVI-XIX), International Congress: Families and Historical Change. Relational Dynamics and Social Transformations. A Global Perspective, 13th-20th Centuries, University of Castilla La Mancha

Francesca Ferrando – Marina Garbelloti (Convenors) with the participation of Tommaso Scaramella (University of Verona) as Convenor.

Presentations:

• Francesca Ferrando (Paper) Madri d’elezione: The Female Figure in Genoese Institutions of the Early Modern Age between Education, Work, and Affective Bonds.
• Verónica Gallego Manzanares (Paper) Gender, Work, and New Family Realities: Domestic Service in Preindustrial Naples.

25 April 2025

Seminar: Andrea Caracausi, Verónica Gallego Manzanares: “Género, trabajo y espacios laborales en la Nápoles de la Edad Moderna” (University of Padua), Seminario Internacional “Proyectos cruzados: espacialidad, redes, trabajo y movilidad en época moderna”, Escuela de Estudios Hispanoamericanos, Instituto de Historia, CSIC / Pablo de Olavide University, Sevilla.

27 March 2025

Panel: Work in preindustrial Italy: a gender perspective, European Social Science History Conference, University of Leiden

Raffaella Sarti, Andrea Caracausi (convenors) with the participation of Margareth Lazinger (University of Vienna) as Panel Chair and Maria Agren (University of Uppsala) as Discussant.

Presentations:

• Cora Benetti, Raffaella Sarti (Paper) Labels and Verbs: A Study of Self-Presentation and Descriptions of Work Practices in a Gender Perspective in 18th and 19th Century Urbino.
• Andrea Caracausi, Veronica Gallego Manzanares, Mattia Viale (Paper) Reassessing Women’s Work in Early Modern Italy: the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Kingdom of Naples Compared
• Marina Garbelloti, Cinzia Lorandini (Paper) Men and Women at Work in the Trentino Region (18th-19th centuries)
• Francesca Ferrando (Paper) Labour Practices in Venice from a Gender Perspective (1700-1800)
• Beatrice Zucca Micheletto (Paper) Gender Division of Labour in Turin (1792-1848)

19 August 2024

Andrea Caracausi (lecture): Work, Workplaces and Mobility in Preindustrial Italy: a Gender Perspective, Instituto de Historia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile

21 June 2024 

Mattia Viale (paper): Exploring Women’s Work in Early Modern Rural Italy: Insights from the Republic of Venice, IX Congresso della Società Italiana delle Storiche (SIS), University of Palermo.

30 April 2024

Andrea Caracausi (lecture): Exploration du travail des femmes dans l’Italie rurale du début des temps modernes : aperçu de la République de Venise, Université Gustave Eiffel, Paris.

6 April 2024 

Andrea Caracausi and Mattia Viale (paper): Exploring Women’s Work in Early Modern Rural Italy: Insights from the Republic of Venice, Economic History Society (EHS) Annual Conference, Northumbria University, Newcastle.

31 October 2023

Andrea Caracausi (paper): Exploring women’s work in early modern rural Italy: insights from the Republic of Venice”, Economic and Social History Seminar, All Souls College, Oxford University.