TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bellavitis,Anna
AU  - Borderías,Cristina
AU  - Boris,Eileen
AU  - Downs,Laura Lee
AU  - Folbre,Nancy
AU  - Gissi,Alessandra
AU  - Lanzinger,Margareth
AU  - Marella,Maria Rosaria
AU  - Martini,Manuela
AU  - Pescarolo,Alessandra
AU  - Sarti,Raffaella
AU  - Weber,Florence
AU  - Ågren,Maria
TI  - What is Work?: Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present 
T2  - International Studies in Social History
SN  - 9781785339110
AV  - HD6060.6 .W53 2018
U1  - 306.3/615 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Housekeeping
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Sexual division of labor
KW  - History
KW  - HISTORY / Social History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - academic
KW  - american society
KW  - breadwinner
KW  - career
KW  - civil law
KW  - culture
KW  - domestic workers
KW  - economic sociology
KW  - engaging
KW  - essay collection
KW  - essyas
KW  - family history
KW  - family
KW  - feminist economics
KW  - gender history
KW  - gender issues
KW  - gender studies
KW  - gender
KW  - household economies
KW  - labor industrial relations
KW  - masculinity
KW  - material culture
KW  - political science
KW  - politics
KW  - social history
KW  - social issues
KW  - social sectors
KW  - sociology
KW  - understanding labor
KW  - women
KW  - womens issues
KW  - work and labor issues
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Figures and Tables --; Introduction. What Is Work? Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present --; I. SETTING THE SCENE: THE FEMINIST CHALLENGES TO THE “DELABORIZATION” OF HOUSEHOLD WORK --; Introduction --; 1 Family Work: A Policy-Relevant Intellectual History --; 2 Productive and Reproductive Work: Uses and Abuses of an Old Dichotomy --; 3 The Home as a Factory: Rethinking the Debate on Housewives’ Wages in Italy, 1929–1980 --; II. THE CUNNING HISTORIAN: UNVEILING AND OVERCOMING THE GENDER BIAS OF SOURCES --; Introduction --; 4 The Statistical Construction of Women’s Work and the Male Breadwinner Economy in Spain (1856–1930) --; 5 Toiling Women, Non-working Housewives, and Lesser Citizens: Statistical and Legal Constructions of Female Work and Citizenship in Italy --; 6 The Complexities of Work: Analyzing Men’s and Women’s Work in the Early Modern World with the Verb-Oriented Method --; 7 The Visibility of Women’s Work: Logics and Contexts of Documents’ Production --; III. THE VALUE OF CARE AND UNPAID HOME-BASED WORK: THE ROLE OF THE LAW --; Introduction --; 8 Regulating Home Labors: The ILO and the Feminization of Work --; 9 Family-Relations Law between “Stratification” and “Resistance”: Housework and Family Law Exceptionalism --; 10 Could Family (Care) Work Be Paid? From French Agricultural Inheritance Law (1939) to Legal Recognition of Excessive Filial Duty (1994) --; IV. CONCLUSION --; Conclusion. Can We Construct a Holistic Approach to Women’s Labor History over the Longue Durée? --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785339127?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785339127
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785339127/original
ER  -