The Rise and Decline of the Male Breadwinner Family?: Studies in Gendered Patterns of Labour Division and Household Organisation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521639668)

This collection of essays looks at the origins and expansion of different patterns of breadwinning in both western and non-western history. As a collection it provides new insights into the historical and cross-cultural development of the male breadwinner family and its determinants, and, as such, it provides an important contribution to the ongoing debate on patterns of breadwinning. An important range of factors previously undervalued in the debate are considered: the effects of local labour markets in interaction with family strategies and family values; employers' strategies and the effects of capital accumulation and the rise of international commercial networks; the effects of egalitarian communist ideologies; and the differential ways in which modern welfare states were constructed. The volume calls for a renewed research effort in order to reconstruct the male breadwinner family as the norm and to work towards the integration of different explanatory models.

Author: Angelique Janssens
ISBN-10: 0521639662
ISBN-13: 9780521639668
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/09/1998
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.43d