This Busy Worker Goes to Market, and This Busy Worker Stays Home

Pauline Hunt

Chapter 2 in Gender and Class Consciousness, 1980, pp 37-101 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract With the arrival of baby a drastic change frequently occurs in the life of the mother. She gives up outside employment and takes on the arduous round of domestic duties. Her labour now is less supervised and regulated, but far more isolated and continuous. Whereas previously she contributed directly to the financial strength of the household she now becomes financially dependent. These changes and the repercussions which follow from them clearly mark off this chapter of her life from her life preceding motherhood, and from the life her male partner continues to lead.

Keywords: Domestic Work; Wage Earner; Labour Power; Class Consciousness; Pocket Money (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1980
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-04725-3_3

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