Research Catalog

Title

Women's employment and the capitalist family / Ben Fine.

Author

Fine, Ben.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.

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Details

Description

vii, 249 pages; 23 cm

Summary

The current interest in the position of women reflects their economic importance. This book critically assesses much of this literature and contributes to it by offering an explanation of women's labour market participation.

Subject

• Women > Employment
• Sexual division of labor
• Work and family
• Patriarchy
• Capitalism
• Women > Employment > Great Britain
• Work and family
• Arbeidsmarkt
• Vrouwen
• Trabalho da mulher (direito do trabalho)
• Capitalismo
• Sociologia
• Economia
• Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-239) and indexes.

Contents

Beyond the domestic labour debate -- 1. On Patriarchy. Gender blindness and ahistorical analysis. Restructuring patriarchy theory -- 2. Women and the Labour-Market. The unhappy marriage of patriarchy and segmented labour-market theory. The presumed primitive exclusion of women. Women as a reserve army of labour. Occupational segregation. Economics and women's employment -- 3. Gender and Access to the Means of Production. Structure, simultaneity, process and contingency. Periodising the family: its formal subordination. The real subordination of the family to capitalism. The social subordination of the family -- 4. Women and the British Labour-Market. The three 'lows' and women's employment -- Appendix: Reviewing the domestic labour debate.

ISBN

• 0415083346
• 9780415083348
• 9780415614108
• 0415614104
• 9780415614115
• 0415614112

LCCN

91047668

OCLC

• ocm25205359
• 25205359
• SCSB-1970067

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library