1st Edition
Who Pays for the Kids? Gender and the Structures of Constraint
By Nancy Folbre
Copyright 1994
348 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
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Routledge
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Three paradoxes surround the division of the costs of social reproduction: * Women have entered the paid labour force in growing numbers, but they continue to perform most of the unpaid labour of housework and childcare. * Birth rates have fallen but more and more mothers are supporting children on their own, with little or no assistance from fathers. * The growth of state spending is often blamed... Read more
Figures, Tables, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Part I Concepts of social reproduction, Part II Histories of social reproduction, Notes, References, Index
Biography
Nancy Folbre
`Anyone would be a better economist, or just a clearer thinker, after reading this book.' Professor Robert M. Solow, Nobel Laureate in Economics
