UID:
almafu_9959236594502883
Format:
1 online resource (348 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-90394-4
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1-134-90395-2
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0-429-22918-6
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0-203-16829-1
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0-203-28416-X
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1-280-11080-5
Series Statement:
Economics as social theory
Content:
Three paradoxes surround the division of the costs of social reproduction:* Women have entered the paid labour force in growing numbers, but they continue to perform most of the unpaid labour of housework and childcare.* Birth rates have fallen but more and more mothers are supporting children on their own, with little or no assistance from fathers.* The growth of state spending is often blamed on malfunctioning markets, or runaway bureaucracies. But a large percentage of social spending provides substitutes for income transfers that once took place within families.Who Pays
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; FEMINIST THEORY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY; COLLECTIVE ACTION AND STRUCTURES OF CONSTRAINT; THE PERSISTENCE OF PATRIARCHAL POWER; INTRODUCTION TO PART II; NORTHWESTERN EUROPE; THE UNITED STATES; LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN; CONCLUSION: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FAMILY POLICY; Notes; References; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415075640
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203168295
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