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Norms and Social Policies: Women’s and Child Labour Legislation and Education

In: Women, Work and Colonialism in the Netherlands and Java

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  • Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk

    (Utrecht University)

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This chapter comparescomparison changingsocial policies contemporary debateslabour legislation and ideologies pertaining to the work of women and childrenchild labour in the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies. A particular political cultureculture emerged in which ChristianChristianity notions of “good guardianship” and the “civilisation” of the population legitimised a degree of state intervention in their welfarewelfare—in both the mother country and the colonies. The role of women and childrenchildren in this process of “moral uplifting” was pivotal. Also, the initiatives taken (or omitted) by the state to implement social provisions in both parts of the empire are investigated, with a particular focus on labour legislationlabour legislation and general educationeducation between 1870 and 1940. In this period, measures for labour protection and investments in general education drastically increased in the metropole, but lagged seriously in the colony. Whereas the sociopolitical context led to concerns underpinned by similar ideologies, in the course of the late colonial period rhetoric diverged more and more in order to legitimise these differences.

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  • Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, 2019. "Norms and Social Policies: Women’s and Child Labour Legislation and Education," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Women, Work and Colonialism in the Netherlands and Java, chapter 6, pages 223-253, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-030-10528-0_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-10528-0_6
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