King, L orcid.org/0000-0003-2574-704X (2019) How Men Valued Women's Work: Labour In and Outside the Home in postwar Britain. Contemporary European History, 28 (4). pp. 454-468. ISSN 0960-7773
Abstract
This article examines men’s valuing of women's work in the post-1945 period. It considers men's perspectives on female labour in and outside the home in the context of women's wartime work, the increase in married women working, and the greater involvement of men in family life. I argue that men saw their wives’ and partners’ work as of lesser value than their own, in various ways, even if the money women’s paid work brought in could significantly improve living standards, and even in the most caring, loving relationships. The article employs a broad definition of value, considering the social and cultural value of work, alongside its economic outcomes. It places subjective accounts from interviews within a wider cultural and political context, and contributes a new perspective to post-war British historiography by focusing on both paid labour and domestic work, and the negotiation of value between men and women.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Cambridge University Press 2019. This article has been published in a revised form in Contemporary European History at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777319000195. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. |
Keywords: | women’s work; marriage; family; britain |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of History (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 25 Jun 2019 12:31 |
Last Modified: | 21 Nov 2019 13:47 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S0960777319000195 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:147750 |