TY - BOOK ID - 5312222 TI - Unpaid work and the economy : a gender analysis of the standards of living PY - 2003 VL - 46 SN - 0415296943 0415407060 1134433557 1280175184 0203987284 1134433549 PB - London ; New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Wages KW - Women KW - Salaires KW - Femmes KW - Housewives KW - Social conditions. KW - Femmes au foyer KW - Conditions sociales KW - Voluntarism KW - Women. KW - Economic aspects. KW - Women employees KW - Compensation KW - Departmental salaries KW - Earnings KW - Pay KW - Remuneration KW - Salaries KW - Wage-fund KW - Wage rates KW - Working class KW - Voluntary action KW - Volunteer work KW - Volunteering KW - Volunteerism KW - Salaries, etc. KW - Income KW - Labor costs KW - Compensation management KW - Cost and standard of living KW - Prices KW - Feminism KW - National service KW - Associations, institutions, etc. KW - extended KW - income KW - equivalency KW - scale KW - womens KW - labour KW - market KW - convenience KW - consumption KW - double UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5312222 AB - In economics, the voluntary sector is surprisingly understudied. In order to fully understand economics, unpaid and voluntary work needs to be taken into account and afforded the same status as paid activities. This book constitutes a rigorous economic analysis with special emphasis on gender issues and covers every conceivable angle of unpaid work and all its ramifications for the modern economy.The unified vision offered by this group of leading contributors ensures this book is a work of excellent quality. There is every chance it will become a seminal study on unpaid work and as ER -