Housework, wages and money : the category of the female principal breadwinner in financial capitalism

Lisa Adkins, Maryanne Dever

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Abstract

![CDATA[According to a range of authors and popular commentators, the post-Fordist socioeconomic order has produced a new category of female labourer, the ‘female principal breadwinner’. This article opens out this category of worker to critical scrutiny. We suggest that while the very idea of the female principal breadwinner is open to all manner of existing lines of feminist critique, beyond this it forces a confrontation with a number of issues vital to feminist analyses of transformations to women’s labour-both waged and unwaged-in contemporary financialised post-Fordism. We pursue two issues in particular. First, transformations to the labour of social reproduction-including transformations to the measurement and valuation of domestic labour-and second, the financialisation (and shifting capacities) of wages specifically and money more generally. We suggest that if transformations to women’s labour are to be fully grasped and understood feminist theory must renew and rethink its analyses of domestic labour, wages and money.]]
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGender and Labour in New Times
EditorsLisa Adkins, Maryanne Dever
Place of PublicationU.K.
PublisherRoutledge
Pages50-66
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9781315544533
ISBN (Print)9781138683358
Publication statusPublished - 2017

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