Highlighted publications

van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. J. V. (2017). Challenging the de-industrialization thesis: Gender and indigenous textile production in Java under Dutch colonial rule, c. 1830–1920. Economic History Review, 70(4), 1219-1243. [DOI] [Portal]
van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. J. V. (2019). Women, work and colonialism in the Netherlands and Java: comparisons, contrasts and connections, 1830-1940. Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI] [Portal]
van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. J. V. (2017). Big questions and big data: The role of labour in recent global economic history. International Review of Social History, 62 (1), 95-121. [DOI]
van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. J. V., Heerma van Voss, A. F., & Rodriguez García, M. (Eds.) (2017). Selling sex in the city: A global history of prostitution, 1600s-2000s. Brill.

Publications

2026

Scholarly publications

Bruinsma, M., van Nederveen Meerkerk, E., & Steehouder, J. (2026). Introduction. In The Utrecht Historical Student Association, 1926-2026: A Century United by History (pp. 9-17). W Books.
Bruinsma, M., van Nederveen Meerkerk, E., & Steehouder, J. (2026). Inleiding. In De Utrechtse Historische Studentenkring, 1926-2026: Een eeuw verenigd door Geschiedenis (pp. 9-17). W Books.
van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. (2026). From Sashes via Dungarees to Skirt Suits: UHSK Students as a Reflection of Society? In M. Bruinsma, E. van Nederveen Meerkerk, & J. Steehouder (Eds.), The Utrecht Historical Student Association, 1926-2026: A Century United by History (pp. 59). W Books.
van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. (2026). Van bestuurslinten via tuinbroeken tot mantelpak: de UHSK-student als afpiegeling van de samenleving? In M. Bruinsma, E. van Nederveen Meerkerk, & J. Steehouder (Eds.), De Utrechtse Historische Studentenkring, 1926-2026: Een eeuw verenigd door Geschiedenis (pp. 59-72). W Books.
Yu, W., & van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. (2026). Textile Wages, Women’s Earning Power, and Household Living Standards in the Yangtze Delta, 1756–c.1930. Investigaciones de Historia Económica, 22(1), 5-34. [DOI] [Portal]
Bruinsma, M., van Nederveen Meerkerk, E., & Steehouder, J. (2026). The Utrecht Historical Student Association, 1926-2026: A Century United by History. W Books.
Bruinsma, M., van Nederveen Meerkerk, E., & Steehouder, J. (2026). De Utrechtse Historische Studentenkring, 1926-2026: Een eeuw verenigd door Geschiedenis. W Books.

2025

Scholarly publications

Yu, W., & Nederveen Meerkerk, E. V. (2025). From home production to modern mills: Labour allocation, gender, and living strategies of Chinese peasant households, circa 1910s-1930s. Modern Asian Studies, 59(1), 95-121. [DOI] [Portal]
van Nederveen Meerkerk, E., & Dixit, A. (2025). “Human Beings Are Too Cheap in India”: Wages and Work Organization as Business Strategies in Bombay’s Late Colonial Textile Industry. International Review of Social History, 70(S33), 161-192. [DOI] [Portal]

2023

Scholarly publications

van Nederveen Meerkerk, E., Boter, C., Carmichael, S., & Frederick, K. (2023). Global Shifts and Local Actors: Revising Macro-Level Theories on the Relocation of Textile Production From the Lens of the Household in the Netherlands and Java, c. 1820-1940. BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, 138(1), 4-30. [DOI] [Repository]
Bauer, R., & van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. (2023). Introduction. In E. V. Nederveen Meerkerk, & R. Bauer (Eds.), Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st Century (pp. 1-28). Brill. [DOI] [Repository]
van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. (2023). Peasant Households under Pressure: Women’s Work and the Cultivation System on Java, 1830–1870. In E. V. Nederveen Meerkerk, & R. Bauer (Eds.), Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st Century (pp. 31-55). Brill. [DOI] [Repository]
Frederick, K., & van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. (2023). Local Advantage in a Global Context. Competition, Adaptation and Resilience in Textile Manufacturing in the ‘Periphery’, 1860-1960. Journal of Global History, 18(1), 1-24. [DOI] [Repository]

2022

Scholarly publications

Bauer, R., & van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. (Eds.) (2022). Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st Century. (Studies in Global Social History; Vol. 50). Brill. [DOI] [Repository]
van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. (2022). Sekse in de koloniale geschiedschrijving. Jan Bremans Kolonialisme en racisme gelezen door een genderbril. Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 19(3), 103-114. [DOI] [Repository]
van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. (2022). Sex Work Around the World: A Historical Overview. In R. Weitzer (Ed.), Sex for Sale. Prostitution, Pornography, and Erotic Dancing (pp. 43-68). Routledge. [DOI]
van Nederveen Meerkerk, E., & Dixit, A. (2022). Supply of labour during early industrialisation: Agricultural systems, textile factory work and gender in Japan and India, ca. 1880–1940. Indian Economic and Social History Review, 59(2), 223–255. [DOI] [Repository]
Frederick, K., & van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. (2022). From Temporary Urbanites to Permanent City Dwellers? Rural-Urban Labor Migration in Colonial Southern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo. In M. De Haas, & E. Frankema (Eds.), Migration in Africa: Shifting Patterns of Mobility from the 19th to the 21st Century (pp. 256-280). Routledge. [DOI] [Repository]

Professional publications

van Nederveen Meerkerk, E., & Boter, C. (2022). 1900. Dagelijkse kost in Nederland en op Java. In Nog meer wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland (pp. 436-441). Ambo/Anthos.

2021

Scholarly publications

van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. (2021). Grammar of Difference. General Education in the Netherlands and Java, 1800-1940. Historical Life Course Studies, 10, 119-123. [DOI] [Repository]

2020

Scholarly publications

van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. J. V. (2020). Reversal of fortune or continued misery? Ulbe Bosma’s Making of a Periphery reviewed. International Review of Social History, 65(3), 495-505. [DOI] [Portal]
van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. J. V. (2020). Van regionaal naar globaal. Wat kunnen we leren van internationaal vergelijkend historisch onderzoek naar arbeid en gender? Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 17(1), 77-96. [DOI] [Portal]
van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. J. V. (2020). Education, labour and discipline: New perspectives on indigenous children in colonial Asia. International Review of Social History, 65(1), 1. [Repository]

2019

Scholarly publications

van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. J. V. (2019). Women workers of the world united: A comparative history of households, gender and work. Radboud Universiteit. [Repository]
van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. J. V. (2019). Gender and Empire: Postcolonial perspectives on women and gender in the "West" and the "East", 17th-20th centuries. In E. Asquer, A. Bellavitis, G. Calvi, I. Chabot, C. La Rocca, & M. Martini (Eds.), Vingt-cinq ans après: Les femmes au rendez-vous de l’histoire (pp. 397-416). Ecole Française de Rome.
van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. J. V. (2019). Women, work and colonialism in the Netherlands and Java: comparisons, contrasts and connections, 1830-1940. Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI] [Portal]

2018

Scholarly publications

van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. J. V. (2018). Threads of imperialism: Colonial institutions and gendered labour relations in the textile industry in the Dutch Empire. In K. Hofmeester, & P. de Zwart (Eds.), Colonialism, Institutional Change and Shifts in Global Labour Relations (pp. 135-172). (Work around the Globe: Historical Comparisons; Vol. 3). Amsterdam University Press. [DOI] [Repository]

Professional publications

van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. J. V. (2018). 1901: Nederlandse beschaving in koloniaal perspectief. In L. Heerma van Voss, M. 't Hart, K. Davids, K. Fatah-Black, L. Lucassen, & J. Touwen (Eds.), Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland (pp. 474-479). Ambos.

2017

Scholarly publications

van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. J. V. (2017). Entangled Histories: Unraveling the Impact of Colonial Connections on both Javanese and Dutch Women’s Work and Household Labour Relations, ca. 1830-1940. Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, 20(1), 35-59. [DOI] [Repository]
van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. J. V. (2017). Temporary service? A global perspective on domestic work and the life cycle from pre-industrial times to the present day. Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 43(2), 217-239. [DOI]
van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. J. V. (2017). Challenging the de-industrialization thesis: Gender and indigenous textile production in Java under Dutch colonial rule, c. 1830–1920. Economic History Review, 70(4), 1219-1243. [DOI] [Portal]
van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. J. V. (2017). Big questions and big data: The role of labour in recent global economic history. International Review of Social History, 62 (1), 95-121. [DOI]
Hofmeester, K., & van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. J. V. (2017). Family, demography and labour relations: an introduction. History of the Family, 22(1), 3-13. [DOI]
van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. J. V., Heerma van Voss, A. F., & Rodriguez García, M. (Eds.) (2017). Selling sex in the city: A global history of prostitution, 1600s-2000s. Brill.
van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. J. V. (2017). A Gender Analysis of Global Sex Work. In M. Rodríguez García, L. Heerma van Voss, & E. van Nederveen Meerkerk (Eds.), Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s (pp. 801-832). (Studies in Global Social History; Vol. 31). Brill. [DOI] [Repository]
van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. J. V., Heerma van Voss, A. F., & Rodriguez García, M. (2017). Selling Sex in World Cities, 1600s–2000s: An Introduction. In M. Rodríguez García, L. H. V. Voss, & E. V. Nederveen Meerkerk (Eds.), Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s (pp. 1-21). (Studies in Global Social History; Vol. 31). Brill. [DOI] [Repository]
van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. J. V., Heerma van Voss, A. F., & Rodriguez García, M. (2017). Sex Sold in World Cities, 1600s–2000s: Some Conclusions to the Project. In M. Rodríguez García, L. H. V. Voss, & E. V. Nederveen Meerkerk (Eds.), Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s (pp. 861-880). (Studies in Global Social History; Vol. 31). Brill. [DOI] [Repository]

2008

Scholarly publications

van den Heuvel, D., & van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. (2008). Introduction: Partners in business? Spousal cooperation in trades in early modern England and the Dutch Republic. Continuity and Change, 23(S2), 209-216. [DOI]