Crunch time: how married couples confront unlemployment

by Rao, Aliya Hamid

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Title Statements

Full title :Crunch time : how married couples confront unlemployment / Aliya Hamid Rao.

Summary

Introduction: a tale of two unemployments -- Men at home: reconfiguring space during mens unemployment -- Idealizing the home and spurning the workplace? -- Dinner table diaries -- Can women be ideal job-seekers? -- Why don't unemployed men do more housework? -- Why do unemployed women do even more housework? -- Conclusion: unemployment and inequality in an age of uncertainty.

"In Crunch Time, Aliya Hamid Rao gets up close and personal with college-educated, unemployed men, women, and spouses to explain how comparable men and women have starkly different experiences of unemployment. Traditionally gendered understandings of work--that it's a requirement for men and optional for women--loom large in this process, even for marriages that had been not organized in gender-traditional ways. These beliefs serve to make men's unemployment an urgent problem, while women's unemployment--cocooned within a narrative of staying at home--is almost a non-issue. Crunch Time reveals the minutiae of how gendered norms and behaviors are actively maintained by spouses at a time when they could be dismantled, and how gender is central to the ways couples react to and make sense of unemployment."

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of California Press
Place of Publication:Oakland, California
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 291 Seiten

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780520298606, 0520298608, 9780520298613, 0520298616
oclc:on1179007291
LC Classification:HD5708
Dewey Decimal:331.13/708655

Subjects

Arbeitslosigkeit Arbeitsteilung Arbeitsuche Chômeurs -- Différences entre sexes Chômeurs -- Relations familiales Couples -- Travail Ehe Familie Familles de la classe supérieure -- Asp… Geschlechterunterschiede Hausarbeit Married people -- Employment Unemployed -- Family relationships Unemployed -- Sex differences Upper class families -- Economic aspects