Anne Montenach is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Aix-Marseille (France) and a member of UMR TELEMMe (Aix-Marseille Université-CNRS) (https://telemme.mmsh.fr/?membres=anne-montenach). Her main fields of interest are social and economic history, with special attention to gender and labor history. She co-edited Female Agency in the Urban Economy: 1640–1830 (Routledge, 2013) with Deborah Simonton. She is also general editor, with Deborah Simonton, of the Cultural History of Work, 6 vols (Bloomsbury, 2018). Her last monograph Gender, Space and Illicit Economies in Eighteenth-Century Europe. Uncontrolled Crossings was published by Routledge in 2024. Mail to: anne.montenach@univ-amu.fr
Céline Mutos-Xicola is post Doc researcher at the Departament d’História I Arqueologia, Història Contemporània i Món Actual at the Universitat de Barcelona. Her research contributes to the history of Catalan proto-industrialisation, and analyses cotton hosiery an industrial and highly feminised, a sector that remained hidden. She also studies the importance of the manufactures of charity houses during the industrial take-off, which made use of the domestic labour of rural households, particularly the labour of women. Recently, She has published several book chapters, including one on wet-nurses’ work (C. Sarasúa ed. 2021), one edited by Dr. M. Martini, on women and industry (Brepols, Women of the Past, 2024) and the other on microcredit and care institutions (Avallaone and Strangio, Palgrave 2024). Mail to: celine.mutos@udg.edu
Beatrice Zucca Micheletto (PhD.) is a researcher at the Dipartimento di Culture, Politica, Società (CPS) at the University of Turin (Italy), where she teaches Economic History of Migration. She has served as co-leader of the working group “Labour, belongings and economy” in the COST Action Women on the Move (CA 19112). Her research focuses on women and gender history, history of the family, labour history and history of migration in early modern Italy and France. She authored the book Travail et propriété des femmes en temps de crise (Turin, XVIIIe siècle), 2104, several articles in international reviews and three collective works. Among her recent publications: Gender and Migration in Historical Perspective (Palgrave, 2022) and Women and Property in pre-unification Italy. A long-term overview of norms and practices (Routledge 2024). At present she is working on mobility, rural proto-industry and citizenship in pre-unification Italy. ORCID: 0000-0002-7910-4069 Mail to: beatrice.zucca@unito.it