Justin, Marilyn Waring in NZ has written a book about the valuation of women's unpaid work. Check the following WWW site. http://www.massey.ac.nz/~KBirks/gender/econ/waring.htm In the relatively new journal Feminist Economics Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 1995, you'll find Becker's Theory of the Family: Preposterous Conclusions by Barbara Bergmann Also Volume 1, Number 2 Summer 1995 has a paper entitled The Discovery of "Unpaid Work": The Social Consequences of the Expansion of "Work" by Susan Himmelweit In Volume 2, you'll find a number of papers. Counting Outputs, Capital Inputs and Caring Labor: Estimating Gross Household Product Duncan Ironmonger Unpaid Household Work and the Distribution of Extended Income: The Norwegian Experience Iulie Aslaksen and Charlotte Koren An Estimation of Time and Commodity Intensity in Unpaid Household Production Iulie Aslaksen, Trude Fagerli, and Hanne A. Gravningsmyhr Scenarios for a Redistribution of Unpaid Work in the Netherlands Marga Bruyn-Hundt Of Milk and Coca Cola Meena Acharya Thou Shalt Not Live by Statistics Alone, but It Might Help Lourdes Beneria Measure it to Make it Count Robert Eisner The Valuation of Unpaid Work at Statistics Canada Chris Jackson Priorities for Research on Non-Market Work Duncan Ironmonger. That lot should keep you going for some time! Martin Watts 27 November, 1995Justin Schwartz wrote: > > I am working on a paper on women's work--housekeeping, childcare, etc., as > exploited labor. I am looking generally for bibliographical references > that deal with this in helpful ways. I am also looking for a couple of > specific things: > > Any attempts to either value the total contribution of women's nonmarket > labor as part of the the total economic product; > > including methodologies for doing this, and > > any quantitative results. > > I think Nancy Folbre did some work on this. > > Theoretical accounts of the sense in which women's work so defined is > exploited (or not); > > Useful critical discussions of Becker on the gender allocation of women's > work in the household; > > Citations to the old "wages for housework" proposal, and any literature on > that idea, if anyone still holds out for it. > > Other proposals for ending the exploitation of housework and childcare. > > In this connection I am playing with the idea of a guaranteed > annual income intended specifically as remuneration for this sort of > caregiving labor. Has anyone considered such a proposal? > > --Justin Schwartz -- Martin Watts Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Economics Office: (61) 49 215069 (Phone) University of Newcastle Office: (61) 49 216919 (Fax) New South Wales 2318, Australia Home: (61) 49 829611 (Phone/Fax)
