{"product_id":"what-is-work-gender-at-the-crossroads-of-home-family-and-business-from-the-early-modern-era-to-the-present-9781785339110","title":"What is Work?: Gender at the Crossroads of Home,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tEvery 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. \u003cem\u003eWhat Is Work?\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“In the perspective of the preparation of the competitions, this book makes it possible to open the field of what constitutes the history of work and to build a critical point of view on its sources. It will also be of greater interest to those who want to write a reflective history of work, attentive to the categories that constitute it. Finally, at a time when the rapid development of teleworking promises to shift a large part of salaried activities to the domestic space, it offers a strong historical perspective to sharply address the pitfalls of the present.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Le Carnet du Mouvement Social\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“One of the strong points of this volume is the excellent theoretical framework offered by its editors. They begin with a solid introduction that not only serves to present the contributions but also allows to pose questions and to raise the problems approached in this volume…This work of very high quality helps to understand the multiple forms of first female and then feminist mobilization regarding the definition and redistribution of the work accomplished by women in the domestic sphere.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Clio\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures and Tables\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e What is Work? Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Raffaella Sarti, Anna Bellavitis, and Manuela Martini\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART I: SETTING THE SCENE: THE FEMINIST CHALLENGES TO THE \"DELABORIZATION\" OF HOUSEHOLD WORK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003eFamily Work: A Policy-Relevant Intellectual History\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Nancy Folbre\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. \u003c\/strong\u003eProductive and Reproductive Work: Uses and Abuses of an Old Dichotomy\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Alessandra Pescarolo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Home as a Factory: Rethinking the Debate on Housewives’ Wages in Italy, 1929-1980\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Alessandra Gissi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART II: THE CUNNING HISTORIAN: UNVEILING AND OVERCOMING THE GENDER BIAS OF SOURCES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Statistical Construction of Women’s Work and the Male Breadwinner Economy in Spain (1856-1930)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Cristina Borderías\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. \u003c\/strong\u003eToiling Women, Non-Working Housewives and Rightful Citizens: Statistical and Legal Constructions of Female Work and Citizenship in Italy\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Raffaella Sarti\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Complexities of Work: Analyzing Men’s and Women’s Work in the Early Modern World with the Verb-Oriented Method\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Maria Ågren\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Visibility of Women’s Work: Logics and Contexts of Documents’ Production\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Margareth Lanzinger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART III: THE VALUE OF CARE AND UNPAID HOME-BASED WORK: THE ROLE OF THE LAW\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. \u003c\/strong\u003eRegulating Home Labours: The ILO and the Feminization of Work\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Eileen Boris\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9. \u003c\/strong\u003eFamily-Relations Law between \"Stratification\" and \"Resistance\". Housework and Family Law Exceptionalism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Maria Rosaria Marella\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10. \u003c\/strong\u003eCould Family (Care) Work Be Paid? From French Agricultural Inheritance Law (1939) to Legal Recognition of Excessive Filial Duty (1994)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Florence Weber\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART IV: CONCLUSION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion: \u003c\/strong\u003eCan We Construct a Holistic Approach to Women’s Labor History over the \u003cem\u003eLongue Durée\u003c\/em\u003e?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Laura Lee Downs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042411872599,"sku":"9781785339110","price":96.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/what-is-work-gender-at-the-crossroads-of-home-family-and-business-from-the-early-modern-era-to-the-present-9781785339110","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}