Historical Origins of the Male Breadwinner Household Model: Britain, Sweden and Japan  

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Saito, Osamu

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Japan Labor Review vol. 11 no. 04 (2014), page 5-20.
Topik: historical origins; household; breadwinning;
Fulltext: JLR44_saito.pdf (378.77KB)

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Studies of historical origins of the male breadwinner household model cut across the boundaries of economic history, labour history, women’s history, and welfare state studies. The model is sa id to have been established between the mid-19th and the mid-20th century in many countries. This essay begins with a brief survey of literature on the historical path to breadwinning, with special reference to Britain, Sweden and Japan. The literature survey is fol- lowed by the examination of a hypothesis put forward by the economic histo- rian Jan de Vries, which focuses on household production by married women, first in west European historical contex ts, and then with Japanese pre-war data. It is argued that one of the factors acc ounting for the rise of the breadwinner regime was an increase in the dema nd for home-produced goods and services, a factor specific to a particular phase of development where the market sup- plied no acceptable substitutes for most of these. At the same time, it is em- phasized that culture-specific factors, such as family formation rules, tradi- tional systems of welfare, and the govern ment’s stance and policies, are also important for a better understanding of the rise of breadwinning in each his- torical case

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