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What is Work? : Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present / ed. by Raffaella Sarti, Manuela Martini, Anna Bellavitis.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: International Studies in Social History ; 30Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (398 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781785339110
  • 9781785339127
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.3/615 23
LOC classification:
  • HD6060.6 .W53 2018
  • HD6060.6 .W53 2018
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

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