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Researching Value-loaded Issues: The Management of Food in Households

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Gender Relations in Public and Private

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Over the past twenty-five years, economic growth in most Western industrialised countries has been associated with a rise in the labour force participation of women. The increased involvement of women in paid work has been reflected in the growing share of gross domestic product attributable to households and the rising demand for domestic and labour-saving consumer goods and services. However, the gains from rising prosperity (and the costs of recessionary fluctuations) have been unequally distributed throughout the population, with increasing polarisation between rich and poor and, in the workforce, between dual-earner and unemployed households. Married women’s employment has long been recognised as lifting a significant proportion of low-income households above the poverty line (Diamond, 1980), whereas at more affluent levels, dual incomes substantially reinforce other advantages (Pahl, 1984; Morris with Ruane, 1989).

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  1. University of Essex, Colchester, UK

    Lydia Morris (Professor of Sociology) (Professor of Sociology)

  2. South Bank University, London, UK

    E. Stina Lyon (Principal Lecturer and Head of the Sociology Division) (Principal Lecturer and Head of the Sociology Division)

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Purcell, K. (1996). Researching Value-loaded Issues: The Management of Food in Households. In: Morris, L., Lyon, E.S. (eds) Gender Relations in Public and Private. Explorations in Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24543-7_10

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