Member of the IAFFE Board of Directors
Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
Contemporary History, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; MA in Labor Economics, New School for Social Research, NY, as Fulbright scholar; Ph D in History, European University Institute, Florence (Italy). Her thesis focused on the historical formation of labor markets and women’s restricted access to wage labor. Since 1996, she is Associate Professor of Economic History at Universidad Autónoma of Barcelona, Spain, and has been a visiting professor and visiting scholar at Cornell U., Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey-Puebla (México), Vrije Universiteit (Brussels), and U. de la República (Uruguay). She has worked and published extensively on gender and labor markets: migrations, wage differentials, domestic service, 18th and 19th centuries- labor policies, and women’s welfare. She has been co-editor of ¿Privilegios o eficiencia? Mujeres y hombres en los mercados de trabajo (2003), is the author of Criados, nodrizas y amos. El servicio doméstico en la formación del mercado de trabajo madrileño (1994), “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” (2008), and recently, co-author of “Gender inequality in family consumption, Spain 1850-1930”, in Gender inequalities, Households and the Production of Well-Being in Modern Europe. Dr. Sarasúa has been the editor of Historia Agraria, and is currently an Associate Editor of Feminist Economics and a member of the Editorial Board of Continuity and Change. She is currently involved in a research project on the Reconstruction of the Female Labor Participation Rate.