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Markusen, Ann R City Spatial Structure, Women's Household Work, and National Urban Policy 1980 Article Domestic Labour, Social Reproduction Cities, Urban, Womens Work, Female Labour, Working Women, Domestic Labour, Wages, Social Reproduction, Marxism, Urbanology
Citation Markusen, Ann R 1980 Article Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society Cities Urban Womens Work Female Labour Working Women Domestic Labour Wages Social Reproduction Marxism Urbanology Domestic Labour Social Reproduction

"City Spatial Structure, Women's Household Work, and National Urban Policy"

by Markusen, Ann R (1980)

Abstract

This paper investigates the interrelationship between city spatial structure, women's household work, and urban policy. It first differentiates between two types of work in urban space: wage-labor production and household reproduction of labor power, generally and incorrectly ignored in analyses of urban spatial structure and dynamics by neoclassical location theorists and Marxist urbanologists alike. I contend that social reproduction, organized within the patriarchal household where an unequal internal division of labor …

Keywords

Cities, Urban, Womens Work, Female Labour, Working Women, Domestic Labour, Wages, Social Reproduction, Marxism, Urbanology

Themes

Domestic Labour, Social Reproduction

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