
Husbands at Home
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Part I: Household Work Strategies in a De-Industrializing Economy Setting the Scene 1: The Wearside Empirical Study 1. Introduction: The Household Sector in Total Economic Activity Setting the Scene 2: Changing Employment Experiences 2. The Gender and Spatial Impact of Structural Economic Change Setting the Scene 3: Unemployed Men and Housework 3. Models of Relevance to Household Work Strategies Part II: Re-articulation of the Divisions of Labour: Gender, the Family, and the Changing Nature of Work Setting the Scene 4: Changing Household Divisions of Labour 4. Divisions of Labor within the Domestic Economy and the Process of Change Setting the Scene 5: The Influence of Tradition and of the State Benefit System 5. Motivations and Household Work Strategies: Gender, Conflict, and the Family Conclusions: Monopoly Capitalism, the Domestic Economy, and the Changing Nature of Work Notes Bibliography Index