Showing papers by "Jane Humphries published in 1984"

The reconstruction of the supply side of the labour market: the relative autonomy of social reproduction

Abstract: been replaced in recent years by a proliferation of theories about the family and its rela tion to the system of production.1 It is our contention that this work, for the most part, has done little to establish the family system as an interesting, central and dynamic vari able for economic analysis. This outcome, however, is the direct result of the application of two opposing but equally inappropriate methodologies for the analysis of the family system. In this paper we examine the main approaches to the analysis of social reproduc tion, using the position of women in the system of production and reproduction as the main example of existing work on social reproduction. We show that across the whole spectrum of theoretical approaches, from neoclassical to Marxist and feminist, broadly similar methodologies for analysing the relationships between the spheres of production and reproduction have been employed.