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What is work? : gender at the crossroads of home, family, and business from the early modern era to the present / edited by Raffaella Sarti, Anna Bellavitis, and Manuela Martini.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- International studies in social history ; v. 30.
- International studies in social history ; volume 30
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sexual division of labor--History.
- Sexual division of labor.
- Housekeeping--Social aspects.
- Housekeeping.
- Sex role.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 387 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction: what is work? gender at the crossroads of home, family, and business from the early modern era to the present / Raffaella Sarti, Anna Bellavitis, and Manuela Martini
- Family work: a policy-relevant intellectual history / Nancy Folbre
- Productive and reproductive work: uses and abuses of an old dichotomy / Alessandra Pescarolo
- The home as a factory: rethinking the debate on housewives' wage in Italy, 1929-1980 / Alessandra Gissi
- The statistical construction of women's work and the male breadwinner economy in Spain (1856-1930) / Cristina Borderias Mondejar
- Toiling women, non-working housewives and rightful citizens: statistical and legal constructions of female work and citizenship in Italy / Raffaella Sarti
- The complexities of work: analyzing men's and women's work in the early modern world with the verb-oriented method / Maria Agren
- The visibility of women's work: logics and contexts of documents' production / Margareth Lanzinger
- Regulating home labors: the ILO and the feminization of work / Eileen Boris
- Family-relations law between "stratification" and "resistance": housework and family law speciality / Maria Rosaria Marella
- Could family (care) work be paid? from French agricultural inheritance law (1939) to legal recognition of excessive filial duty (1994) / Florence Weber
- Can we construct a holistic approach to women's labor history over the longue dureÌe? / Laura Lee Downs.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 26, 2018).
- Other Format:
- Print version: What is work?
- ISBN:
- 9781785339127
- 1785339125
- Publisher Number:
- 99978922420
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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