Valuing Housework: Nineteenth-Century Anxieties About the Commodification of Domestic Labor

American Behavioral Scientist

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1437-1451

  Siegel, Reva B ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0032220471     PISSN: 00027642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002764298041010005     Document Type: Article

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