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Crunch time : how married couples confront unemployment /

"In Crunch Time, Aliya Hamid Rao gets up close and personal with college-educated, unemployed men, women, and spouses to explain how comparable men and women have starkly different experiences of unemployment. Traditionally gendered understandings of work--that it's a requirement for men a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rao, Aliya Hamid (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a tale of two unemployments
  • Men at home: reconfiguring space during mens unemployment
  • Idealizing the home and spurning the workplace?
  • Dinner table diaries
  • Can women be ideal job-seekers?
  • Why dont unemployed men do more housework?
  • Why do unemployed women do even more housework?
  • Conclusion: unemployment and inequality in an age of uncertainty.