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1 online resource (viii, 387 pages) |
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International studies in social history ; volume 30
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International studies in social history ; v. 30.
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| Summary |
"Every society throughout history has defined what counts as work and what doesn't. And more often than not, those lines of demarcation are inextricable from considerations of gender. What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding labor within the highly gendered realm of household economies. Drawing from scholarship on gender history, economic sociology, family history, civil law, and feminist economics, these essays explore the changing and often contested boundaries between what was and is considered work in different Euro-American contexts over several centuries, with an eye to the ambiguities and biases that have shaped mainstream conceptions of work across all social sectors"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: what is work? gender at the crossroads of home, family, and business from the early modern era to the present / Raffaella Sarti, Anna Bellavitis, and Manuela Martini -- Family work: a policy-relevant intellectual history / Nancy Folbre -- Productive and reproductive work: uses and abuses of an old dichotomy / Alessandra Pescarolo -- The home as a factory: rethinking the debate on housewives' wage in Italy, 1929-1980 / Alessandra Gissi -- The statistical construction of women's work and the male breadwinner economy in Spain (1856-1930) / Cristina Borderias Mondejar -- Toiling women, non-working housewives and rightful citizens: statistical and legal constructions of female work and citizenship in Italy / Raffaella Sarti -- The complexities of work: analyzing men's and women's work in the early modern world with the verb-oriented method / Maria Agren -- The visibility of women's work: logics and contexts of documents' production / Margareth Lanzinger -- Regulating home labors: the ILO and the feminization of work / Eileen Boris -- Family-relations law between "stratification" and "resistance": housework and family law exceptionalism / Maria Rosaria Marella -- Could family (care) work be paid? from French agricultural inheritance law (1939) to legal recognition of excessive filial duty (1994) / Florence Weber -- Can we construct a holistic approach to women's labor history over the longue durée? / Laura Lee Downs. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sexual division of labor -- History.
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Housekeeping -- Social aspects.
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Sex role.
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sex role. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
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HISTORY -- Social History. |
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Housekeeping -- Social aspects |
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Sex role |
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Sexual division of labor |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Added Author |
Sarti, Raffaella, 1963- editor.
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Bellavitis, Anna, editor.
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Martini, Manuela, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: What is work? New York : Berghahn Books, 2018 9781785339110 (DLC) 2018039469 |
| ISBN |
9781785339127 (electronic book) |
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1785339125 (electronic book) |
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9781785339110 (hardcover) |
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