Uncovering the Hidden Work of Women in Family Businesses: A by Lisa Geib-Gunderson

By Lisa Geib-Gunderson

Data from the us Census of inhabitants point out that there was a dramatic elevate within the exertions strength participation of married girls over the 20 th century. This publication, first released in 1998, takes factor with this recognized stylized truth. while the exertions strength literature reviews commonly on men’s transition from domestic creation to marketplace paintings, the impact on women’s employment has long past kind of overlooked. the target of this publication is to discover the paintings frequently passed over from descriptions of salary paintings and home tasks – that's, paintings performed within the family for industry use – and to envision a few of the implications of this omission for analysing married women’s participation in GNP-producing paintings over the process the earlier century.

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