Capital Restructuring And The Domestic Economy: Family Self Respect And The Irrelevance Of ‘Rational Economic Man’  

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Wheelock, Jane

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Capital & Class vol. 14 no. 2 (Aug. 1990), page 103-141.
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The inspiration for this article arose from the unexpected outcome of a study funded by the Equal Opportunities Commission in which thirty working class Wearside couples were interviewed to find out how the division of domestic work between wives and husbands changed when men become unemployed . I At least in Britain, there have only been a handful of studies of the effects of unemployment on who does what tasks in the household . Their conclusions have been that male unemployment does little to alter the division of household work, or indeed that it reinforces traditional gender roles within the family (See Morris, 1985 ; McKee and Bell, 1985) .

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