"Never intended to be a theory of everything": Domestic labor in neoclassical and Marxian economics

Feminist Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 71-101

  Jefferson, Therese ^a   King, John E ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Domestic labor; Feminism; Housework; Marxism; National income; Neoclassical

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035564294     PISSN: 13545701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13545700110103504     Document Type: Article

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