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Husbands at Home: The Domestic Economy in a Post-Industrial Society book cover

1st Edition

Husbands at Home The Domestic Economy in a Post-Industrial Society

By Jane Wheelock Copyright 1990
190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge
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First Published in 1990, Husbands at Home gives a clear picture of the relationship between the domestic and the formal economy. Who does the housework when men become unemployed? Is a true reversal of gender roles possible? Jane Wheelock discovered, despite sociologists’ expectations, that most men are willing to share domestic labour with their (still working) female partners.   Wheelock... Read more

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Part I: Household Work Strategies in a De-Industrializing Economy Setting the Scene 1: The Wearside Empirical Study 1. Introduction:  The Household Sector in Total Economic Activity Setting the Scene 2: Changing Employment Experiences 2. The Gender and Spatial Impact of Structural Economic Change Setting the Scene 3: Unemployed Men and Housework 3. Models of Relevance to Household Work Strategies Part II: Re-articulation of the Divisions of Labour: Gender, the Family, and the Changing Nature of Work Setting the Scene 4: Changing Household Divisions of Labour 4. Divisions of Labor within the Domestic Economy and the Process of Change Setting the Scene 5: The Influence of Tradition and of the State Benefit System 5. Motivations and Household Work Strategies: Gender, Conflict, and the Family Conclusions: Monopoly Capitalism, the Domestic Economy, and the Changing Nature of Work Notes Bibliography Index

Biography

Jane Wheelock

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