Unpaid work and the economy
Subtitle: gender, time use and poverty in developing countries
By: edited by Rania Antonopoulos and Indira Hirway.
Contributors: Antonopoulos, Rania, 1960-; Hirway, Indira.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780230217300
Subjects: Wages -- Housewives -- Developing countries; Sex discrimination against women -- Developing countries; Poor -- Developing countries
Description: "This volume uses unpaid work and time-use survey data (TUS) from across the global South to elucidate the need to incorporate unpaid work into economic analysis in order to better understand poverty and gender (in)equality"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements * Notes on Contributors * List of Abbreviations and Acronyms * Introduction: Unpaid Work and the Economy; title: R. Antonopoulos and I. Hirway * Unpaid Work and Unemployment: engendering public job creation;R. Antonopoulos * Understanding Poverty in India: Insights Emerging from Time-Use Survey Data;I. Hirway * Gender Inequalities in Allocating Time to Paid and Unpaid Work: Evidence from Bolivia; title: M. Medeiros, R. Osório and J. Costa * Poverty, Unemployment and Unpaid Work: A Gendered Analysis for the Case of South Africa; title: R. Antonopoulos and E. Memis * Unpaid HIV/AIDS Care: Gendered Dimensions and the Feminization of Poverty;O. Akintola * Public Investment and Unpaid Work in India: Selective Evidence from Time-Use Data; title: L. Chakraborty * Removing the Cloak of Invisibility: Integrating Unpaid Household Services in National Economic Accounts; title: S. Collas-Monsod * Lessons from the Buenos Aires Time Use Survey: A Methodological Assessment; title: V. Esquivel * Issues in Time-Use Measurement and Valuation: Lessons from African experience on Technical and Analytical Issues; title: J. Charmes * Methodology and Methods of Time Use Data Collection: A World Survey of the Global South; title: I. Hirway * Index Acknowledgements * Notes on Contributors * List of Abbreviations and Acronyms * Introduction: Unpaid Work and the Economy; title: R. Antonopoulos and I. Hirway * Unpaid Work and Unemployment: engendering public job creation;R. Antonopoulos * Understanding Poverty in India: Insights Emerging from Time-Use Survey Data;I. Hirway * Gender Inequalities in Allocating Time to Paid and Unpaid Work: Evidence from Bolivia; title: M. Medeiros, R. Osório and J. Costa * Poverty, Unemployment and Unpaid Work: A Gendered Analysis for the Case of South Africa; title: R. Antonopoulos and E. Memis * Unpaid HIV/AIDS Care: Gendered Dimensions and the Feminization of Poverty;O. Akintola * Public Investment and Unpaid Work in India: Selective Evidence from Time-Use Data; title: L. Chakraborty * Removing the Cloak of Invisibility: Integrating Unpaid Household Services in National Economic Accounts; title: S. Collas-Monsod * Lessons from the Buenos Aires Time Use Survey: A Methodological Assessment; title: V. Esquivel * Issues in Time-Use Measurement and Valuation: Lessons from African experience on Technical and Analytical Issues; title: J. Charmes * Methodology and Methods of Time Use Data Collection: A World Survey of the Global South; title: I. Hirway * Index.