RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The “Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations”
JF African Economic History
JO Afr Eco His
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 12
OP 42
DO 10.3368/aeh.50.1.12
VO 50
IS 1
A1 Karin Hofmeester
YR 2022
UL https://aeh.uwpress.org/aeh.uwpress.org/content/50/1/12.abstract
AB Women’s work is often invisible in official censuses and statistics. The “Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations” has developed a “Taxonomy of Labour Relations” and a method to collect data on labor relations that comprises all kinds of work, including work for the household and homestead, the family firm or farm, and self-employment in the so-called informal sector. In this article, we explain this method and give an overview of the results of data so far collected in various parts of the world, offering a comparative context for the data on sub-Saharan Africa.