The Unemployed Man and His Family
The Effect of Unemployment Upon the Status of the Man in Fifty-Nine Families
In The Unemployed Man and His Family, noted sociologist and feminist Mirra Komarovsky poses the question: what happens to the authority of the male head of the family when he fails as a provider? Between 1935 and 1936, Komarovsky interviewed 59 families in 1935-36 in which the male had been unemployed for at least a year. Interestingly, in many cases, the husband's struggle in the economic sphere did not offset the solidity and happiness of the marital relationship. But unemployment seems to have affected the men's sense of their own position as head of household and providers. For one thing, it undermined their sense of themselves as breadwi…
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Weitere Autoren: Kimmel, Michael (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-7591-1525-5
- EAN: 9780759115255
- Produktnummer: 22948769
- Verlag: AltaMira Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 186 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'397 KB
- Auflage: Updated Edition
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By Mirra Komarovsky - Edited by Michael Kimmel
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