Researching Value-loaded Issues: The Management of Food in Households

Purcell, Kate

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Gender Relations in Public and Private 1996

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-24543-7_10

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Researching Value-loaded Issues: The Management of Food in Households

Kate Purcell¹

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“…Three types of domestic work were emphasized: household maintenance and renovations, housework, and child care. Measures of household labour are controversial (Doucet, 1996;Purcell, 1996). A recent study suggests that time diary data may provide the most accurate information about the nature of domestic work, its duration, and scheduling (Wright et al, 1992).…”

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Shift Work, Childcare and Domestic Work: Divisions of labour in Canadian paper mill communities

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Norcliffe³

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Gender, Place & Culture

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The growing prevalence of shift work and non-standard working hours is challenging many taken-for-granted notions about family and household life. This paper examines how rotating shift-schedules shape household strategies with regard to childcare and unpaid domestic work. In 1993-1994 we conducted in-depth interviews with 90 predominantly male newsprint mill-workers and their spouses living in three communities located in different regions of Canada. Our analysis is based on these interviews as well as data collected in a questionnaire survey administered to a much larger sample in each community. We focus on the effects of fixed versus rotating shifts and the extent to which household strategies differ between households with one or two wage-earners. Our findings reveal that the onus for adjusting to shifts fell mainly on the spouses of mill-workers who felt constrained in their own choices regarding employment and childcare by the demanding regimen of their partner's shift schedules. In the vast majority of households a traditional division of labour predominated with regard to both childcare and domestic work. When women quit paid employment to accommodate the schedules of shift-workers and ensure time for the family to be together, traditional values reassert themselves. Surprisingly, we found a high level of satisfaction with current shift schedules despite the significant adjustments to family life they had engendered. By comparing families employed in the same industry but living in three very different communities our analysis underscores the importance of local circumstances in mediating the strategies households deploy with regards to coping with shift-work; especially with regard to childcare.

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Shift Work, Childcare and Domestic Work: Divisions of labour in Canadian paper mill communities

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Norcliffe³

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The Household, Women's Employment and Social Exclusion

Smith

1997

Urban Studies

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The paper illustrates how socioeconomic issues impact upon individuals at a micro level and contribute towards a process of social exclusion These issues are examined with reference to one specific group: women living in dual-adult households residing in an inner city council estate in Sheffield. It particularly explores the relationship between the household, women's labour market participation and social exclusion. The relationship between the household and labour market has tended to receive limited attention within traditional urban literature. This study attempts to examine housing issues within an extended framework, utilising a range of cross-disciplinary literature from social, economic and housing disciplines. The factors which impact upon a process of social exclusion are illustrated with reference to case studies of individual women. The data for each case study were ascertained by utilising life-history analysis which allows for a sequential examination of events.

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Gender, Class, and Urban Space: Public and Private Space in Contemporary Urban Landscapes

Bondi¹

1998

Urban Geography

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Researching Value-loaded Issues: The Management of Food in Households

Cited by 3 publications

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Shift Work, Childcare and Domestic Work: Divisions of labour in Canadian paper mill communities

Shift Work, Childcare and Domestic Work: Divisions of labour in Canadian paper mill communities

The Household, Women's Employment and Social Exclusion

Gender, Class, and Urban Space: Public and Private Space in Contemporary Urban Landscapes

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