Family structures and productive system: working class families in crisis

Authors

  • Helena Hirata Universidade de São Paulo
  • John Humprey University of Sussex

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/ts.v4i1/2.84917

Keywords:

Working class families, Sexual division of labor, Employment, Unemployment, Women, Modernity, Crisis

Abstract

The article analyses relations between domestic and professional spheres, taking the social and sexual division of labor into account. It attempts to show to what degree family structures and relationships influence the economic activity of men and women, and also, to what degree the latter can influence family relationships. The work is based data collected from research carried out in Santo Amaro, São Paulo, in 1982 and 1986, stressing the impact of crisis on jobs, supplying indications on the differences and contradictions that take inside working class families and their effects on the evolution of jobs during crisis.

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Author Biography

  • Helena Hirata, Universidade de São Paulo

    Professora vistante no Departamento de Sociologia da Universidade de São Paulo.

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Published

1992-07-06

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1/2 (1992)

Section

Dossiê Modos de Vida

License

Copyright (c) 1992 Tempo Social

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

Hirata, H., & Humprey, J. (1992). Family structures and productive system: working class families in crisis. Tempo Social, 4(1/2), 111-131. https://doi.org/10.1590/ts.v4i1/2.84917