Social reproduction : the political economy of the labour market / Antonella Picchio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Picchio, Antonella.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor economics.

Labor market.

Labor supply.

Labor policy.

Working class.

Social classes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Focuses on the relationship between the production of commodities and the process of social reproduction of the labouring population

Contents:

Cover; Social reproduction: the political economy of the labour market; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Wages as exogenous costs of social reproduction; 1.1 The historical context; 1.2 The analytical context; 1.3 Smith, Ricardo and Malthus on wages; 1.4 The supply of labour; 1.5 The family and the state; 2. The displacement effect of the wages fund theory; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Malthus versus Ricardo; 2.3 James Mill; 2.4 Robert Torrens; 2.5 J. R. McCulloch; 2.6 Conclusions; 3. The role of the state in the labour market, i.e. social insecurity

3.1 Starting from the bottom3.2 The Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Distress, 1905-9; 3.3 The 1834 Poor Law; 3.4 The failure of the 1834 policies; 3.5 The Minority Report; 4. Women and the Poor Law; 4.1 Victorian and Edwardian housework; 4.2 Women and poverty; 4.3 'Are women able bodied?'; 5. Women's work at the core of the labour market; 5.1 The work of reproduction; 5.2 Some empirical evidence; 5.3 Becker's 'home-economics'; 5.4 Two jobs for one wage; 5.5 Policy perspectives; 5.6 Women and the state; 5.7 A political subject; 5.8 Conclusions

6. The supply of labour as a process of social reproduction6.1 Standards of living: the quality of labour; 6.2 Inherent conflicts; 6.3 The quantity of labour; 6.4 Supply and demand; 6.5 A different approach; 6.6 A starting point; 6.7 A critical perspective; Notes; Introduction; 1. Wages as exogenous costs of social reproduction; 2. The displacement effect of the wages fund theory; 3. The role of the state in the labour market, i.e. social insecurity; 4. Women and the Poor Law; 5. Women's work at the core of the labour market; 6. The supply of labour as a process of social reproduction

ReferencesIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-18893-8

1-139-14128-7

1-139-14460-X

1-139-14039-6

1-139-13726-3

OCLC:

784883499