Jesús Agua de la Roza
Jesús Agua de la Roza holds a PhD in Early Modern History from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and is the author of an unpublished doctoral dissertation entitled «Útiles al Estado». Pobreza y trabajo infantil en Madrid, ca. 1700-1805 (“Útiles al Estado”. Poverty and child labour in Madrid, ca. 1700-1805), defended in September 2022. His work obtained the qualification of outstanding Cum Laude and the mention of International PhD. Between 2011-2015 he was part of the Department of Modern History of the UAM as Research Staff in Training (PIF), a period in which he also completed a short stay at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.
His research deals with labour history in Early Modern Madrid -mainly from the perspective of child labour, analysing its significance in the household economy- as well as the history of poor relief and punitive institutions in Madrid. The results of his research have been published in more than a dozen publications, both in articles in Spanish and international journals and as chapters of collective books. Among them, in 2014 he coordinated, together with his colleagues from the Grupo Taller de Historia Social, the book Veinticinco años después: avances en la Historia Social y Económica de Madrid (Twenty-five years later: advances in the Social and Economic History of Madrid).
He is currently a member of the research project Privilegio, trabajo y conflictividad. La sociedad moderna de Madrid y su entorno entre el cambio y las resistencias (founded by the Spanish Ministry of Science), as well as of the Red Española de Historia del Trabajo (REHT), the Equipo Madrid de Investigaciones Históricas (based at the UAM) or the Grupo Taller de Historia Social. Between 2014 and 2017 he also participated in the coordination of the Free and Unfree Labour working group of the European Labour History Network.
