Housework
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7079127 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea N Hunt (University of North Alabama, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-26 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosh059.pub2 |
| OpenAlex | W4251856208 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Housework, broadly defined, refers to the paid and unpaid labor performed to maintain family members and/or a home. This includes cleaning, buying groceries, preparing meals, and doing the laundry. Sociologists often frame the discussion of housework as part of the division of household labor, and this is where housework is situated within sociological literature. In most studies, housework is defined by its measurement and often excludes childcare, emotion work, and other invisible types of labor. However, sociologists do acknowledge that the construction of “housework” as a concept is a historical process and is thus contingent on other factors
Division of labour · Laundry · Political science · Situated · Sociology · Emotional Labor in Professions · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Work-Family Balance Challenges
| Highly cited | No |
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