The Rise and Decline of the Male Breadwinner Family?
Subtitle: Studies in Gendered Patterns of Labour Division and Household Organisation (International Review of Social History Supplements)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 13, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780521639668
Subjects: Family & relationships; Social history; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; Heads of households; Working-class families; Marriage; Social Conditions Of Labor; Business & Economics; Family / Parenting / Childbirth; Renaissance; Career/Job; History; General; Family & Relationships / General; Family--Economic aspects--History; History / Renaissance; History-Renaissance; Economic aspects; Sociology - Marriage & Family; Labor; Family
First sentence: In recent years feminist scholars have called for a complete rethinking and revision of the foundations of labour history as a necessary prerequisite for the integration of gender as a core concept into histories of labour and social class.