ABSTRACT
This chapter begins in the first section with a broad outline of four different approaches that have been used to analyse women’s employment-methods based on structuralism, simultaneity, processes (or economic and social practices), and historical specificity. After examining each of these, they are brought together in discussing the value and reproduction of labour power-who works, for how long and for what reward. This, in turn, suggests that the family or household is subject to distinct changes of structure. These are identified in the following three sections through a periodisation of the capitalist family.
