Différentes membres du projet participent à la 6e conférence de l’European Labour History Network du 16 au 19 juin 2026.

Mardi 16 juin 2026

Family Work and the Early Modern Illicit Economy

ORGANIZERS
Ida Fazio & Anne Montenach

PAPERS
– Family, Gender and Strategies in the Illegal Pawnbroking Economy in the 18th
century (Montpellier and Marseille) Claire Huet
– Households, Fraud and Illicit Economies in Eighteenth-Century Genoa: Gendered
Strategies in Criminal and Annonary Records, Paolo Calcagno & Francesca Ferrando
– Making and Selling Nougat: Seasonal Labour, Gender, and Informal Markets in Early
Modern Spain Marta Manzanares Mileo
– Smuggling with the Family in the South-East of the Kingdom of France (mid 17th–18th
Centuries), Cécile Bournat-Quérat
– Women Resellers at the Barcelona Food Market Driven Into Illegality: The Downside
of Widowhood and other Circumstances, Mercè Renom

Mercredi 17 juin 2026

Women, work, and family in early modern Italian cities (I)

ORGANIZERS
Anna Bellavitis & Corine Maitte
PAPERS
– Economic resources for women in the capital cities of early modern Italian States, Anna Bellavitis & Corine Maitte
– Margins of the Port: Women’s Work Between Law and Illegality in Genoa and Venice
in the Late Eighteenth Century, Francesca Ferrando
– Women’s Work and Urban Economies: Female Labour in the Silk Industry in Early
Modern Naples (17thCentury), Alice Boeri
– Women’s work in the printing industry, Rome, 16th-18th century, Marina Formica ›

Women, work, and family in early modern Italian cities (II)

ORGANIZERS
Anna Bellavitis & Corine Maitte

PAPERS
– Labor, Discipline, and Dowry: Female Work as a Tool of Social Reintegration in
Roman Conservatories (18th–Early 19th Century), Francesca Palumbo
– The textile manufacturing of the Real Monte della Pietà female orphanage in
Barletta: training, work organisation and economic activity (18th-19th centuries), Angela Carbone
– Women and work in the female conservatories: the case of the Conservatorio delle
Pericolanti in Rome, Emma Pietroletti
– Women’s Work in the Urban Economy of Évora, 1750-91: A Southern European Case, Isa Maria Moreira Liz

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