| Description |
vii, 249 pages ; 23 cm |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
Women Employment |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-239) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Capitalism.
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Patriarchy.
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Sexual division of labor.
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Women -- Employment -- Great Britain.
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Women -- Employment.
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Work and family.
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| LC no. |
91047668 |
| ISBN |
0415083346 |
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