Contributors
- Contributors
Joyce Burnette is professor of economics at Wabash College. In addition to writing Gender, Work, and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain, she has done research on female agricultural workers in Britain during the 1740–1850 period and is starting a new project on nineteenth-century American manufacturing.
Amy M. Froide is associate professor of history and Bearman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is author of Never Married: Singlewomen in Early Modern England (2005) and editor, with Judith M. Bennett, of Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250–1800 (1999). She is working on a book about female investors during Britain's financial revolution, c. 1690–1750.
Claudia Goldin is Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's Development of the American Economy program. She is author, most recently, of The Race between Education and Technology, with Lawrence F. Katz (2008), and Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women (1990). In 2007 Goldin was inducted as a member of the National Academy of Sciences; she is a fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Econometric Society. In her research in economic history she interprets the present through the lens of the past and explores the origins of current issues.
Jane Humphries is professor of economic history at Oxford University and a fellow of All Souls College. She is editor of the Economic History Review. She has worked extensively on gender and labor markets both in modern and in historical contexts. Her study of child labor in the British industrial revolution is forthcoming.
Chulhee Lee is professor of economics at Seoul National University. His research topics are long-term changes in the work and retirement of older [End Page 505] males in the United States and Korea and interactions of ecological environment, socioeconomic status, and health of individuals over the life course in nineteenth-century America. His recent work on the economic mobility of Civil War veterans has appeared in the Journal of Economic History (2005, 2008) and Explorations in Economic History (2007).
Anne McCants is professor and department head of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is author of Civic Charity in a Golden Age: Orphan Care in Early Modern Amsterdam (2007) and numerous articles on the standard of living, material culture, gendered labor, credit markets, and household reproduction in western Europe.
Joel Rast is associate professor of political science and urban studies and director of the Center for Economic Development at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His work has appeared in Polity, the Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Affairs Review, and other scholarly publications. He is author of Remaking Chicago: The Political Origins of Urban Industrial Change (1999). His research focuses on the politics of urban redevelopment during the post–World War II era.
Pamela Sharpe is professor of history at the University of Tasmania. She has published widely on historical aspects of women's work, including Adapting to Capitalism: Working Women in the English Economy, 1700–1850 (1996). With Joanne McEwan, she has edited a forthcoming collection of essays, Accommodating Poverty: Housing and Living Arrangements of the English Poor, 1600–1850. [End Page 506]
