ABSTRACT
This chapter examines some cumulative efforts to bring attention to the importance of unpaid work and to bring it out of the statistical shadows. These efforts by feminists, women's groups, development scholars, time-use researchers, and the United Nations culminated in the landmark 2013 resolution for measuring work passed during the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS), which includes unpaid work. The chapter evaluates the Accounting Project, which has sought to make unpaid work visible. Since the 1980s the Project has addressed the conceptual underpinnings of the statistical biases that led to the underestimation of women's contributions. The Accounting Project, along with the early work of scholars like Claire Vickery on time poverty and the development of the capabilities approach, has brought attention to less recognized forms of deprivation such as the intensification of working time and lack of time to develop a person's capabilities.
