The origins and expansion of the male breadwinner family: The case of nineteenth-century Britain.
The transition from a family economy in which incomes were democratically secured through the best efforts of all family members to one in which men supported dependent wives and children appears as a watershed in many otherwise very different histories of the family. It looms large in both orthodox...
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Cambridge University Press
1997
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