Gender, Care and Economics

This book offers a radical critique of mainstream, Marxist and feminist economic theories, ranging from the classical liberal economics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the feminist debates about domestic labour and patriarchy in the late twentieth century. It explores the increasing importance of household care relations, especially childcare, in shaping the domestic labour process. Trends in household gender relations and working patterns in Britain are explored in the context of political ideas and policies regarding the state, the economy, gender and care.

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List of Tables - Acknowledgements - Abbreviations - Domestic Labour and Economics - Founding Fathers - The New Home Economics - Socialism and Marxism - The Domestic Labour Debate - The Patriarchy Debate - Domestic Labour, Employment and Gender Relations - Domestic Technology and Market Substitution - Children and Childcare - The Political Economy of Care - Towards an Alternative Feminist Economics - Bibliography - Index