Mw.dr. E.J.V. (Elise) van Nederveen Meerkerk

Position:
  • Post-doc
Expertise:
  • Social and economic history
  • Labour history (women's / child labour)
  • Women’s history
  • Early modern urban history
  • Business history


Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 2947
E-Mail: e.j.v.van.nederveen.meerkerk@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for History, Economische en Sociale geschiedenis
Office Address: Johan Huizingagebouw
Doelensteeg 16
2311 VL Leiden
Room number 2.16a


Curriculum Vitae

Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (1975), studied economic and social history in Utrecht. She has worked on several business history projects at Utrecht University (1999-2000) and the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam (2000-2002). From 2002-2006 she wrote her PhD thesis on women’s work in the Dutch textile industry (1580-1810) at the IISH. Since 1 June 2007, she is working as a postdoc researcher in the project Civil Services and Urban Communities, 1500-1800 (see http://www.hum2.leidenuniv.nl/history/csuc)

Fields of interest

She is interested in many aspects of economic and social history: labour history in general, and women’s and child labour in particular; textile history; urban history and business history. Furthermore, her interests lie in colonial history and gender history. She is editor of the Dutch Journal Textielhistorische Bijdragen and board member of the foundation of International Research on Working Children (IREWOC).

Working papers

'Counting women in. Female labour market participation in the Dutch textile industry, c. 1600-1800'.

Selected publications

Books

2007 De draad in eigen handen. Vrouwen en loonarbeid in de Nederlandse textielnijverheid 1581-1810 (Amsterdam: Aksant). http://dare.ubvu.vu.nl/handle/1871/12680


2002 [with Jan Peet], Een peertje voor de dorst. De geschiedenis van het Philips Pensioenfonds (Amsterdam: Aksant).


Book chapters

2007 Lex Heerma van Voss and Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, ‘The Hanse and after. State formation, merchant elites and the efficiency of institutions in the Hanse and Holland, c. 1400-1680’, in: Hanno Brand (ed.), The German Hanse as a Distant Mirror. A study on medieval and early-modern European integration and contemporary interregional co-operation (Groningen 2007), 220-247

Articles

2008 Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, ‘Couples cooperating? Dutch textile workers, family labour and the ‘industrious revolution’, c. 1600-1800’, Continuity and Change 23 (2008), 237-266.

2008 Danielle van den Heuvel and Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, ‘Partners in business? An Anglo-Dutch comparison of the cooperation of spouses in early modern trade’, Continuity and Change 23 (2008), 209-216.

2008 Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk and Ariadne Schmidt, ‘Between wage labor and vocation: child labor in Dutch urban industry, 1600-1800’, Journal of Social History 41, 3, (spring 2008), 717-736.

2007 'Met spinnen de kost winnen', in: Historica (oktober), pp. 19-21

2006 ‘Segmentation in the pre-industrial labour market: women's work in the Dutch textile industry, 1581-1810’, in: International Review of Social History 51 (2), pp. 189-216.

2006 [with Lex Heerma van Voss and Els Hiemstra], ‘De Nederlandse textielnijverheid in een globaliserende wereld, 1650-2000’, Textielhistorische Bijdragen 46, pp. 11-44.

2006 [with Ariadne Schmidt], ‘Tussen arbeid en beroep. Jongens en meisjes in de stedelijke nijverheid, ca. 1600-1800’, Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis 3 (1), pp. 24-50 [see abstract]

2003 [with Marlou Schrover], ‘In eigen boezem. De integratie van vrouwengeschiedenis’, Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis 23, pp. 222-233.

2003 'Het beeld bezien: de spinster op de vroegmoderne arbeidsmarkt', Historica (juni), pp. 19-21.

2001 [with Willem van den Broeke], ‘Spoorlijnen en geldstromen. Een onderzoek naar de financiers van de Nederlandsche Rhijnspoorweg-Maatschappij 1845-1890’, in: NEHA-Jaarboek voor economische, bedrijfs- en techniekgeschiedenis 64, pp. 154-177.

Last Modified: 04-02-2011