Arricchire i questionari: la storia del lavoro di Angela Groppi

Angela Groppi has devoted herself to labour history in a gender perspective since the 1980s. Her innovative approach is to combine the history of women’s rights and the history of their economic activities. Her research made it possible to completely revise the model, proposed mainly for northern Europe, of the exclusion of women workers from trade guilds. In her numerous publications and in particular in the volume Il lavoro delle donne (1996), Angela Groppi has questioned the gender identities of work and the model of the artisan family based on the shared work of husband and wife in the workshop. The link between property rights, inheritance rules and marriage systems is today at the centre of a debate on family and economic models in Northern and Southern Europe. We must be grateful to Angela Groppi for opening this debate

Keywords: gender, work, guilds, citizenship, rights, early modern Rome