What is Work?

Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present

Raffaella Sarti, Anna Bellavitis, Manuela Martini (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

398 Seiten

2020
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-802-3 (ISBN)

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Every society throughout history has defined what counts as work and what doesn’t. And more often than not, those lines of demarcation are inextricable from considerations of gender. What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding labor within the highly gendered realm of household economies. Drawing from scholarship on gender history, economic sociology, family history, civil law, and feminist economics, these essays explore the changing and often contested boundaries between what was and is considered work in different Euro-American contexts over several centuries, with an eye to the ambiguities and biases that have shaped mainstream conceptions of work across all social sectors.

Raffaella Sarti is Associate Professor of Early Modern History and Gender History at the University of Urbino, Italy, and is a member of the editorial collective of Gender & History. Her studies address family and material culture, women’s work, domestic service, Mediterranean slavery, masculinity, and graffiti, among other topics. She is the author of numerous publications in nine languages.

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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

PART I: SETTING THE SCENE: THE FEMINIST CHALLENGES TO THE "DELABORIZATION" OF HOUSEHOLD WORK

Chapter 1. Family Work: A Policy-Relevant Intellectual History

Nancy Folbre

Chapter 2. Productive and Reproductive Work: Uses and Abuses of an Old Dichotomy

Alessandra Pescarolo

Chapter 3. The Home as a Factory: Rethinking the Debate on Housewives’ Wages in Italy, 1929-1980

Alessandra Gissi

PART II: THE CUNNING HISTORIAN: UNVEILING AND OVERCOMING THE GENDER BIAS OF SOURCES

Chapter 4. The Statistical Construction of Women’s Work and the Male Breadwinner Economy in Spain (1856-1930)

Cristina Borderías

Chapter 5. Toiling Women, Non-Working Housewives and Rightful Citizens: Statistical and Legal Constructions of Female Work and Citizenship in Italy

Raffaella Sarti

Chapter 6. The Complexities of Work: Analyzing Men’s and Women’s Work in the Early Modern World with the Verb-Oriented Method

Maria Ågren

Chapter 7. The Visibility of Women’s Work: Logics and Contexts of Documents’ Production

Margareth Lanzinger

PART III: THE VALUE OF CARE AND UNPAID HOME-BASED WORK: THE ROLE OF THE LAW

Chapter 8. Regulating Home Labours: The ILO and the Feminization of Work

Eileen Boris

Chapter 9. Family-Relations Law between "Stratification" and "Resistance". Housework and Family Law Exceptionalism

Maria Rosaria Marella

Chapter 10. Could Family (Care) Work Be Paid? From French Agricultural Inheritance Law (1939) to Legal Recognition of Excessive Filial Duty (1994)

Florence Weber

PART IV: CONCLUSION

Conclusion: Can We Construct a Holistic Approach to Women’s Labor History over the Longue Durée?

Laura Lee Downs

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Erscheinungsdatum	06.11.2020
Reihe/Serie	International Studies in Social History
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-78920-802-5 / 1789208025
ISBN-13	978-1-78920-802-3 / 9781789208023
Zustand	Neuware