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Welfare State Attitudes to the Male Breadwinning System: The United States and Sweden in Comparative Perspective

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Lena Sommestad
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Human reproduction is a basic economic activity in every society. It includes activities such as maternal care, childcare, old age provision, poor relief, healthcare, and labour protection. In pre-industrial times, human reproduction was typically a part of kin-based household economies, but since the onset of industrialization two new institutional solutions have developed: the male breadwinning system and the welfare state.

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International Review of Social History , Volume 42 , supplement S5: The Rise and Decline of the Male Breadwinner Family? , September 1997 , pp. 153 - 174
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Copyright © Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis 1999

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