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Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk is a Professor of Economic Social History at Utrecht University, specializing in labor relations history, particularly concerning women's and children's work. She obtained her PhD in 2007, focusing on women's work in the early modern Dutch Republic. Elise has published extensively in prominent journals such as the Economic History Review and Feminist Economics. She has directed comparative labor history projects and has researched various topics including the history of textile workers, child labor, and domestic work. From June 2017 to June 2020, she served as an extraordinary professor of Comparative History of Households and Gender Work at Radboud University Nijmegen. Elise is also a member of several advisory boards, including the European Social Science History Conference, and has been involved with editorial boards for journals related to social history. As an Honorary Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History, she contributed to the academic community through various initiatives. Currently, she leads an ERC Consolidator project that investigates the impact of global cotton manufacturing relocations on household production and consumption from 1780 to 1990.
Utrecht University • Utrecht
Leading research and teaching in Economic Social History, specializing in labor relations, including studies of women's and children's work.
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