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

by Edited by Angelique Janssens

• ISBN13: 9780521639668
• ISBN10: 0521639662
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-05-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Angelique Janssens
The Rise and Decline of the Male Breadwinner Family? An Overview of the Debate	1	(24)
Sarah Horrell
Jane Humphries
The Origins and Expansion of the Male Breadwinner Family: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Britain	25	(40)
Samita Sen
Gendered Exclusion: Domesticity and Dependence in Bengal	65	(22)
Lina Galvez-Munoz
Breadwinning Patterns and Family Exogenous Factors: Workers at the Tobacco Factory of Seville during the Industrialization Process, 1887-1945	87	(42)
Michael Hanagan
Family, Work and Wages: The Stephanois Region of France, 1840-1914	129	(24)
Lena Sommestad
Welfare State Attitudes to the Male Breadwinning System: The United States and Sweden in Comparative Perspective	153	(22)
Christine von Oertzen
Almut Rietzschel
Comparing the Post-War Germanies: Breadwinner Ideology and Women's Employment in the Divided Nation, 1948-1970	175	(22)
Notes on Contributors	197