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.
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What is Work?
Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present
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What is Work?
Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present
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Table of contents
- What Is Work?
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Introduction. What Is Work?
- Part 1. Setting the Scene
- Chapter 1. Family Work
- Chapter 2. Productive and Reproductive Work
- Chapter 3. The Home as a Factory
- Part 2. The Cunning Historian
- Chapter 4. The Statistical Construction of Women’s Work and the Male Breadwinner Economy in Spain (1856–1930)
- Chapter 5. Toiling Women, Non-working Housewives, and Lesser Citizens
- Chapter 6. The Complexities of Work
- Chapter 7. The Visibility of Women's Work
- Part 3. The Value of Care and Unpaid Home-Based Work
- Chapter 8. Regulating Home Labors
- Chapter 9. Family-Relations Law between “Stratification” and “Resistance”
- Chapter 10. Could Family (Care) Work Be Paid?
- Part 4. Conclusion
- Conclusion. Can We Construct a Holistic Approach to Women's Labor History over the Longue Durée?
- Index
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