Conceptualizing breadwinning work

Warren, Tracey

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“…In light of research that has studied breadwinning with predefined and inconsistent concepts (Warren, 2007) and scholars who have pleaded for recognising breadwinning as a form of parental involvement and care (Christiansen & Palkovitz, 2001), this study was concerned with the question of whether parents' paid work should necessarily be seen as breadwinning and, further, of how breadwinning is associated with care. The analysis was based on longitudinal data consisting of parents' narratives conducted once before and twice after the birth of their first child.…”

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“…In conclusion, conceptualisations are inconsistent and their attribution of breadwinning is ambiguous (cf. Warren, 2007) and partly gendered. The inconsistency is reflected in the varying operationalisation of breadwinning in empirical research that is based on information the respondents with or without children had given them about either their contribution to the household income (Cha & Thébaud, 2009;Kanji & Samuel, 2015), the hours they spent at work (Dermott, 2006) or their own resp.…”

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“…Scholars have sought to grasp the various ways in which fathers and mothers contribute to needs for subsistence and care, but research has been criticised for utilising inconsistent concepts of breadwinning (Warren, 2007). Regarding the connection between employment and breadwinning, scholars have suggested that earning an income is not a sufficient condition for being defined as a breadwinner (Hood, 1986), and that breadwinning also concerns the meaning accorded to the activity of earning money (Nadim, 2016).…”

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Breadwinning as care? The meaning of paid work in mothers’ and fathers’ constructions of parenting

Schmidt

2017

Community, Work & Family

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As some scholars have argued for a distinct conceptualisation of breadwinning and for understanding breadwinning as a form of care, this study addresses parents' constructions of breadwinning and its connections to care. It is based on an in-depth interpretive analysis of multiple-perspective, qualitative longitudinal interviews with 22 Austrian mothers and fathers from three points in time during their transition to parenthood. The analysis revealed four different types of breadwinning concepts by considering the jointly constructed meaning of mothers' and fathers' paid work within a parental couple and further relied on Tronto's [(1993). Moral boundaries. A political argument for an ethic of care. New York, NY: Routledge] conceptualisation of care as a four-step process. The results indicate that respondents construct a clear difference between earning money and breadwinning. Additionally, a difference is made between breadwinning and taking care of the family's subsistence, predominantly so for mothers. In conclusion, breadwinning can definitely be considered a form of care and thus a form of involvement in parenting, but it cannot be regarded a form of involvement in caregiving. The holistic picture of parents' joint constructions enabled us to contribute to the existing conceptualisations of breadwinning and of parental involvement, thus providing a novel perspective on matters of gender equality. RESUMENEl presente estudio retoma investigaciones que exigen una definición clara del concepto del sustento (= breadwinning) y de un entendimiento más amplio de sustento que incluye también el cuidado. El foco está tanto en las dimensiones del trabajo renumerado como en la dimensión del cuidado en la construcción parental de paternidad. Se basa en un análisis hermenéutico de entrevistas cualitativas -desde una perspectiva multilateral -y longitudinales hechas a 22 madres y padres austríacos que fueron encuestados en tres momentos durante la transición hacia la paternidad. Este análisis se basa en el concepto de Tronto (1993) del cuidado como proceso de cuatro etapas y lo tenía en cuenta en las estructuras del significado conjuntamente construídas sobre el trabajo renumerado de la madre y del padre. Se averiguaron This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.CONTACT Eva-Maria Schmidt eva-maria.schmidt@univie.ac.at COMMUNITY, WORK & FAMILY, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2017 cuatro diferentes tipos de sustento. Los resultados indican que los entrevistados construyen diferencias muy claras entre ganar dinero y el sustento. Las construcciones diferencian entre el sustento y el cuidado por el bienestar económico de la familia, especialmente con respecto al trabajo renumerado de la m...

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Section: What Is Breadwinning?mentioning

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Breadwinning as care? The meaning of paid work in mothers’ and fathers’ constructions of parenting

Schmidt

2017

Community, Work & Family

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“…Before we can derive hypotheses we need to define working and commuting arrangements (see the data and methods section for a detailed operationalisation). There are numerous ways to characterize the divisions of paid work between partners (Warren, 2007). Because of the importance of part-time work for women in The Netherlands (Visser, 2002) we distinguished between full-time jobs, large parttime jobs and small part-time jobs.…”

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“…Qualitative research has given us insight into the daily struggle by dual earners to run the household when time is scarce. Often, careful synchronization of household members' schedules is required to be able to carry out all paid and unpaid duties (Hochschild & Machung, 1989;Clarkberg & Moen, 2001;Moen, 2003;Schwanen, 2006;2007). Inspired by Hägerstrand (1970), feminist geographers have emphasised the importance of the spatial context in the shaping of daily routines of households (Tivers, 1985;Hanson & Pratt 1988;Droogleever Fortuijn, 1993;Hanson & Pratt, 1995;Jarvis 1999;Karsten, 2003;Moen, 2003;Jarvis, 2005).…”

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Symmetry and Asymmetry in Working and Commuting Arrangements between Partners in the Netherlands: Does the Residential Context Matter?

Meester

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2009

Environ Plan A

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This is the author's Post-print version (final draft post-refereeing as accepted for publication by the journal). The definitive, peer-reviewed and edited version of thisAbstract. Time spent on work and commuting within dual earner households is often analysed separately for individuals, but this does no justice to the reality of dual earner households where decisions on work and commuting are made in a household context. This article reports on a quantitative study of the impact of the residential context on working arrangements and commuting arrangements of partners in couple and family households. Using multinomial logistic regression we analysed data from the Netherlands Housing Demand Survey (2002) and the ABF Real Estate Monitor (2004). The results show a (gendered) effect of residential location in terms of degree of urbanization and job access on both working and commuting arrangements. Good access to jobs makes it more likely that couples have a symmetric full-time working arrangement and also more likely that both partners work far away. Those in symmetric full-time working arrangements are also those most likely to be in symmetric close commuting arrangements. This finding reflects the substantial time pressure on such households.

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Breadwinner Role

Train

2016

Encyclopedia of Family Studies

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The concept of the “breadwinner role” became prominent between 1790 and 1865 in the west under industrialization. Until this period, both men's and women's participation in production were considered essential to family survival. In agrarian societies, the lines separating the gender division of labor were often blurred. With the onset of industrialization, the gender division of labor became rigid, and men and women became associated with separate and different spheres of work. Women became associated with the domestic sphere, which included all household work and caregiving, while men became entirely responsible for the financial support of the family as the “breadwinner.”

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Conceptualizing breadwinning work

Cited by 77 publications

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Breadwinning as care? The meaning of paid work in mothers’ and fathers’ constructions of parenting

Breadwinning as care? The meaning of paid work in mothers’ and fathers’ constructions of parenting

Symmetry and Asymmetry in Working and Commuting Arrangements between Partners in the Netherlands: Does the Residential Context Matter?

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