Marilyn Power
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marilyn Power |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marilyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Power |
| SIGNATURE | POWER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sarah Lawrence College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ecology, Sustainability, and Care: Developments in the Field
Over the past three decades, scholars and activists have been attempting to enrich the field of economics with both feminist and ecological perspectives. This essay reviews some highlights of such efforts, describes the current state of the field (particularly in regard to notions of “care”), and introduces a short symposium
Challenging Knowledge, Sex and Power: Gender, Work and Engineering
A social provisioning approach to gender and economic life
What is economic life? How have scholars defined the parameters of their study of the provisioning process – that is, the production and reproduction of human material life? Economic thinkers have offered a range of answers to this question. Classical economist Adam Smith focused his analysis in The Wealth of Nations around general well-being (or ‘general opulence’ as he termed it), defined as the production of the ‘necessaries and conveniences o…
A History of Heterodox Economics
Purpose The aim of this paper is to review Fred Lee's book A History of Heterodox Economics . Design/methodology/approach The paper provides a context for Lee's research within the current debates over the financial crisis, then reviews and evaluates his analysis. Findings Lee has provided valuable and almost overwhelmingly meticulous documentation of the struggle to maintain space for heterodox economics within the discipline of economics, begin…
Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labour Market Policies in the United States
Wage setting has historically been a deeply political and cultural as well as economic process. This informative and accessible book explores how US wage regulations in the twentieth century took gender, race-ethnicity and class into account. Focusing on social reform movements for living wages and equal wages, it offers an interdisciplinary account of how women's work and the remuneration for that work has changed along with the massive transfor…
Social Provisioning as a Starting Point for Feminist Economics
The past decade has seen a proliferation of writing by feminist economists. Feminist economists are not identified with one particular economic paradigm, yet some common methodological points seem to be emerging. I propose making these starting points more explicit so that they can be examined, critiqued, and built upon. I use the term “social provisioning” to describe this emerging methodology. Its five main components are: incorporation of cari…
Neither Mothers Nor Breadwinners: African-American Women's Exclusion From US Minimum Wage Policies, 1912-1938
We examine two key US labor market policies: state-level minimum wages for women from 1912-23 and the federal minimum wage established under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Each of these regulations implicitly defined which groups were and were not expected to conform to the hegemonic male breadwinner/female homemaker model of gender relations. In fact, social reformers and labor leaders advocated these policy measures as a means of extendi…
Implicit Wage Theories in Equal Pay Debates in the United States
We identify three implicit wage theories in U.S. debates over the principle of equal pay for equal work: wages as a living , wages as a price , and wages as a social practice . Arguments for wages as a living emphasize that the purpose of the wage is to provide an adequate level of support for the worker. Proponents of wages as a price emphasize that wages allocate resources and are primarily the outcome of forces of supply and demand. To these t…
Parasitic-Industries Analysis and Arguments for a Living Wage for Women in the Early Twentieth-Century United States
This paper examines arguments by activists and economists surrounding attempts to establish minimum wages for women in the United States in the Progressive Era. In particular, the paper focuses on analyses based on Beatrice and SidneyWebbs' argument that industries paying less than a living wage were "parasitic" on the society, a net drain on macro-efficiency. This analysis, widely accepted among economists of the time, viewed women as particular…
Race, class, and occupational mobility: Black and white women in service work in the united states
This paper examines and compares the occupational mobility of black and white women who worked in service occupations in the United States in their late teens and 20s. Rather than using a conventional methodology of hypothesis-testing based on a narrow set of variables, the study uses a descriptive methodology to help illuminate the complex interaction of race, gender, and class in the lives of women. Our goal is to investigate how being a servic…
"Falling through the "Safety Net: Women, Economic Crisis, and Reaganomics
In investigating these questions, I will make a number of analytic arguments. First, women cannot be analyzed as a sexual class. To understand the impact of the Reagan policies on women, and the implications for political activity by women, we must remain aware of class and race differences among women. Second, we must distinguish the Reagan administration from the New Right. Reagan has often expressed his sympathy for New Right policies, and we …
Household Composition and Racial Inequality . Suzanne M. Bianchi Black Women in the Labor Force . Phyllis A. Wallace
Social Provisioning as a Starting Point for Feminist Economics
The past decade has seen a proliferation of writing by feminist economists. Feminist economists are not identified with one particular economic paradigm, yet some common methodological points seem to be emerging. I propose making these starting points more explicit so that they can be examined, critiqued, and built upon. I use the term “social provisioning” to describe this emerging methodology. Its five main components are: incorporation of cari…
Parasitic-Industries Analysis and Arguments for a Living Wage for Women in the Early Twentieth-Century United States
This paper examines arguments by activists and economists surrounding attempts to establish minimum wages for women in the United States in the Progressive Era. In particular, the paper focuses on analyses based on Beatrice and SidneyWebbs' argument that industries paying less than a living wage were "parasitic" on the society, a net drain on macro-efficiency. This analysis, widely accepted among economists of the time, viewed women as particular…
Ecology, Sustainability, and Care: Developments in the Field
Over the past three decades, scholars and activists have been attempting to enrich the field of economics with both feminist and ecological perspectives. This essay reviews some highlights of such efforts, describes the current state of the field (particularly in regard to notions of “care”), and introduces a short symposium
Race, class, and occupational mobility: Black and white women in service work in the united states
This paper examines and compares the occupational mobility of black and white women who worked in service occupations in the United States in their late teens and 20s. Rather than using a conventional methodology of hypothesis-testing based on a narrow set of variables, the study uses a descriptive methodology to help illuminate the complex interaction of race, gender, and class in the lives of women. Our goal is to investigate how being a servic…
Challenging Knowledge, Sex and Power: Gender, Work and Engineering
A History of Heterodox Economics
Purpose The aim of this paper is to review Fred Lee's book A History of Heterodox Economics . Design/methodology/approach The paper provides a context for Lee's research within the current debates over the financial crisis, then reviews and evaluates his analysis. Findings Lee has provided valuable and almost overwhelmingly meticulous documentation of the struggle to maintain space for heterodox economics within the discipline of economics, begin…
"Falling through the "Safety Net: Women, Economic Crisis, and Reaganomics
In investigating these questions, I will make a number of analytic arguments. First, women cannot be analyzed as a sexual class. To understand the impact of the Reagan policies on women, and the implications for political activity by women, we must remain aware of class and race differences among women. Second, we must distinguish the Reagan administration from the New Right. Reagan has often expressed his sympathy for New Right policies, and we …
Household Composition and Racial Inequality . Suzanne M. Bianchi Black Women in the Labor Force . Phyllis A. Wallace
"Falling through the "Safety Net: Women, Economic Crisis, and Reaganomics
In investigating these questions, I will make a number of analytic arguments. First, women cannot be analyzed as a sexual class. To understand the impact of the Reagan policies on women, and the implications for political activity by women, we must remain aware of class and race differences among women. Second, we must distinguish the Reagan administration from the New Right. Reagan has often expressed his sympathy for New Right policies, and we …
Race, class, and occupational mobility: Black and white women in service work in the united states
This paper examines and compares the occupational mobility of black and white women who worked in service occupations in the United States in their late teens and 20s. Rather than using a conventional methodology of hypothesis-testing based on a narrow set of variables, the study uses a descriptive methodology to help illuminate the complex interaction of race, gender, and class in the lives of women. Our goal is to investigate how being a servic…
Parasitic-Industries Analysis and Arguments for a Living Wage for Women in the Early Twentieth-Century United States
This paper examines arguments by activists and economists surrounding attempts to establish minimum wages for women in the United States in the Progressive Era. In particular, the paper focuses on analyses based on Beatrice and SidneyWebbs' argument that industries paying less than a living wage were "parasitic" on the society, a net drain on macro-efficiency. This analysis, widely accepted among economists of the time, viewed women as particular…
Implicit Wage Theories in Equal Pay Debates in the United States
We identify three implicit wage theories in U.S. debates over the principle of equal pay for equal work: wages as a living , wages as a price , and wages as a social practice . Arguments for wages as a living emphasize that the purpose of the wage is to provide an adequate level of support for the worker. Proponents of wages as a price emphasize that wages allocate resources and are primarily the outcome of forces of supply and demand. To these t…
Neither Mothers Nor Breadwinners: African-American Women's Exclusion From US Minimum Wage Policies, 1912-1938
We examine two key US labor market policies: state-level minimum wages for women from 1912-23 and the federal minimum wage established under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Each of these regulations implicitly defined which groups were and were not expected to conform to the hegemonic male breadwinner/female homemaker model of gender relations. In fact, social reformers and labor leaders advocated these policy measures as a means of extendi…
Social Provisioning as a Starting Point for Feminist Economics
The past decade has seen a proliferation of writing by feminist economists. Feminist economists are not identified with one particular economic paradigm, yet some common methodological points seem to be emerging. I propose making these starting points more explicit so that they can be examined, critiqued, and built upon. I use the term “social provisioning” to describe this emerging methodology. Its five main components are: incorporation of cari…
Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labour Market Policies in the United States
Wage setting has historically been a deeply political and cultural as well as economic process. This informative and accessible book explores how US wage regulations in the twentieth century took gender, race-ethnicity and class into account. Focusing on social reform movements for living wages and equal wages, it offers an interdisciplinary account of how women's work and the remuneration for that work has changed along with the massive transfor…
A History of Heterodox Economics
Purpose The aim of this paper is to review Fred Lee's book A History of Heterodox Economics . Design/methodology/approach The paper provides a context for Lee's research within the current debates over the financial crisis, then reviews and evaluates his analysis. Findings Lee has provided valuable and almost overwhelmingly meticulous documentation of the struggle to maintain space for heterodox economics within the discipline of economics, begin…
A social provisioning approach to gender and economic life
What is economic life? How have scholars defined the parameters of their study of the provisioning process – that is, the production and reproduction of human material life? Economic thinkers have offered a range of answers to this question. Classical economist Adam Smith focused his analysis in The Wealth of Nations around general well-being (or ‘general opulence’ as he termed it), defined as the production of the ‘necessaries and conveniences o…
Challenging Knowledge, Sex and Power: Gender, Work and Engineering
Ecology, Sustainability, and Care: Developments in the Field
Over the past three decades, scholars and activists have been attempting to enrich the field of economics with both feminist and ecological perspectives. This essay reviews some highlights of such efforts, describes the current state of the field (particularly in regard to notions of “care”), and introduces a short symposium
Economics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Labour economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (4 works) · Wage (4 works)