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The Rise and Decline of the Male Breadwinner Family? : Studies in Gendered Patterns of Labour Division and Household Organisation, Paperback / softback Book

The Rise and Decline of the Male Breadwinner Family? : Studies in Gendered Patterns of Labour Division and Household Organisation Paperback / softback

Edited by Angelique (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Janssens

Part of the International Review of Social History Supplements series

Paperback / softback

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This collection of essays looks at the origins and expansion of different patterns of breadwinning in both western and non-western history.

As a collection it provides new insights into the historical and cross-cultural development of the male breadwinner family and its determinants, and, as such, it provides an important contribution to the ongoing debate on patterns of breadwinning.

An important range of factors previously undervalued in the debate are considered: the effects of local labour markets in interaction with family strategies and family values; employers' strategies and the effects of capital accumulation and the rise of international commercial networks; the effects of egalitarian communist ideologies; and the differential ways in which modern welfare states were constructed.

The volume calls for a renewed research effort in order to reconstruct the male breadwinner family as the norm and to work towards the integration of different explanatory models.

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