Family Survival in an Urbanizing World

Bibliographic Data

ID9256576
AuthorsIrene Tinker (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume55
Issue2
Pages251-260
Publication date1997-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueReview of Social Economy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0034-6764 • E-ISSN: 1470-1162
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00346769700000039
OpenAlexW2005550658
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited15

Among the urban poor in the Global South, an increasingly large percentage of women are household heads because weakened kin structures have allowed men to cease supporting their families. Women produce income at home in order to combine work and childcare despite government regulations and community planners that discourage such use. Changes in policies regarding tenancy rights for women, housing design, and home production would recognize a woman's dual use of her home. New organizations for home-based workers offer some measure of protection. Solutions to family survival require a research focus on survival issues relating to men as well as to women

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