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Exploring issues of the family wage, this paper examines labour markets, family employment patterns and political conflict in France. Up to now, the debate over the family wage has centred mainly on analysing British trade unions and the development of an ideal of domesticity among the British working classes, more or less taking for granted the declining women's labour force participation rate and the configuration of state/trade union relations prevailing in Great Britain. Shifting the debate across the Channel, scholars such as Laura Frader and Susan Pedersen have suggested that different attitudes to the family wage prevailed. In France, demands for the exclusion of women from industry were extremely rare because women's participation in industry was taken for granted. But a gendered division of labour and ideals of domesticity remained and made themselves felt in both workforce and labour movement.
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Special issue 5: The Rise and decline of the male breadwinner family?
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International review of social history. Special issue, Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1993, 5(1997), Seite 129-151
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volume:5
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year:1997
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pages:129-151
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English
DOI:
10.1017/S0020859000114816
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