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M. EICHLER
Canadian Encyclopedia
01-01-2002
Housework

Author: M. EICHLER

Housework encompasses all unpaid work performed within the household which is related to housekeeping functions, child care and personal services to adults. Today products and services that were formerly only available within private households are available for purchase on the market. Nevertheless, the time spent on housework has not appreciably decreased during this century. What has shifted are the conditions under which it is performed.

Until recently social scientists and policy makers regarded housework as nonwork in an economic sense. More recent research stimulated by feminist critiques has ...

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