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. https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/360901
van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. J. V. (2019). Women, work and colonialism in the Netherlands and Java: comparisons, contrasts and connections, 1830-1940. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10528-
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. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859017000037
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
2023
Scholarly publications
van Nederveen Meerkerk, E., Boter, C., Frederick, K., & Carmichael, S. (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.
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. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004529427_002
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. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004529427_003
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. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004529427
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. https://doi.org/10.52024/tseg.13103
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. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003228639-3/
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. https://doi.org/10.1177/00194646221083806
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. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003225027-17
Frederick, K., & van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. (2022). 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. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022821000425
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. https://doi.org/10.51964/hlcs9579
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. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859020000553[Opens in a new window]
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. https://doi.org/10.18352/tseg.1126
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. https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/406672
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.
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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 Francaise 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10528-
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. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048535026-006
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. https://doi.org/10.5117/TVGN2017.1.MEER
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. https://doi.org/10.13109/gege.2017.43.2.217
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. https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/360901
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. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859017000037
Hofmeester, K., & van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. J. V. (2017). Family, demography and labour relations: an introduction. History of the Family, 22(1), 3-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2016.1271993
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. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004346253_032
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. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004346253_002
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. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004346253_034