Never intended to be a theory about everything: Domestic labour in neoclassical and Marxian economics

This article is a comparative study of the treatment of domestic labor by neoclassical and Marxian economists. Before 1960 mainstream economics concentrated on production for the market, with serious analysis of housework confined to a handful of economists, whose efforts in this regard were margina...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jefferson, Therese, King, J.
Format: Working Paper
Published: Curtin University of Technology 2001
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40304