Carmen Sarasúa
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain

Contemporary History, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; M.A. in Labor Economics, New School for Social Research, as Fulbright scholar; Ph D in History, European University Institute, Florence (Italy). Thesis on the historical formation of labour markets and women’s exclusion from wage labor. Since 1996, professor of Economic History, Economics Faculty, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Visiting professor at Cornell U., Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey-Puebla (México), Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, and other institutions. I became a feminist since my University years in Madrid, and have taken this political interest to my academic work. I have worked and published extensively on gender and labour markets: migrations, wage differentials, domestic service, labour policies, women’s welfare, and women’s historical activity rates. Co-editor (with L. Gálvez) of ¿Privilegios o eficiencia? Mujeres y hombres en los mercados de trabajo (2003), and author of Criados, nodrizas y amos. El servicio doméstico en la formación del mercado de trabajo madrileño (1994), and, among other articles, “Technical innovations at the service of cheaper labor in pre-industrial Europe. The Enlightened agenda to transform the gender division of labor in silk manufacturing” (History & Technology, 2008). I organized a session on Gender and Technology at the last International Congress of Economic History, am the Editor of Historia Agraria, journal of the Spanish Association of Agrarian History, and a member of the Editorial Boards of Feminist Economics (just appointed) and of Continuity and Change. I have been an IAFFE member since its birth. My interest to become a Board Member is twofold: expanding IAFFE’s membership and influence in Europe, particularly in Mediterranean countries, and in Latin America; and making Economic History more present both in Feminist Economics and at IAFFE conferences.