2 Productive and Reproductive Work: Uses and Abuses of an Old Dichotomy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Figures and Tables vii
4. Introduction. What Is Work? Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present 1
5. I. SETTING THE SCENE: THE FEMINIST CHALLENGES TO THE “DELABORIZATION” OF HOUSEHOLD WORK
6. Introduction 85
7. 1 Family Work: A Policy-Relevant Intellectual History 89
8. 2 Productive and Reproductive Work: Uses and Abuses of an Old Dichotomy 114
9. 3 The Home as a Factory: Rethinking the Debate on Housewives’ Wages in Italy, 1929–1980 139
10. II. THE CUNNING HISTORIAN: UNVEILING AND OVERCOMING THE GENDER BIAS OF SOURCES
11. Introduction 161
12. 4 The Statistical Construction of Women’s Work and the Male Breadwinner Economy in Spain (1856–1930) 165
13. 5 Toiling Women, Non-working Housewives, and Lesser Citizens: Statistical and Legal Constructions of Female Work and Citizenship in Italy 188
14. 6 The Complexities of Work: Analyzing Men’s and Women’s Work in the Early Modern World with the Verb-Oriented Method 226
15. 7 The Visibility of Women’s Work: Logics and Contexts of Documents’ Production 243
16. III. THE VALUE OF CARE AND UNPAID HOME-BASED WORK: THE ROLE OF THE LAW
17. Introduction 265
18. 8 Regulating Home Labors: The ILO and the Feminization of Work 269
19. 9 Family-Relations Law between “Stratification” and “Resistance”: Housework and Family Law Exceptionalism 295
20. 10 Could Family (Care) Work Be Paid? From French Agricultural Inheritance Law (1939) to Legal Recognition of Excessive Filial Duty (1994) 326
21. IV. CONCLUSION
22. Conclusion. Can We Construct a Holistic Approach to Women’s Labor History over the Longue Durée? 349
23. Index 368