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What is work? : gender at the crossroads of home, family, and business from the early modern era to the present /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sarti, Raffaella, 1963- (Editor ), Bellavitis, Anna (Editor ), Martini, Manuela (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
Colección:International studies in social history ; v. 30.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.