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The Unemployed Man and His Family
The Effect of Unemployment Upon the Status of the Man in Fifty-Nine Families
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2004
Summary
In The Unemployed Man and His Family, noted sociologist and feminist Mirra Komarovsky poses the question: what happens to the authority of the male head of the family when he fails as a provider? Between 1935 and 1936, Komarovsky interviewed 59 families in 1935-36 in which the male had been unemployed for at least a year. Interestingly, in many cases, the husband's struggle in the economic sphere did not offset the solidity and happiness of the marital relationship. But unemployment seems to have affected the men's sense of their own position as head of household and providers. For one thing, it undermined their sense of themselves as breadwinners. Most found it unbearably humiliating to accept relief. Perhaps her most important finding_which still resonates today_was that those men who thought of themselves exclusively as providers suffered far more than those who had developed alternative identities as father and husband.
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Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2004
ISBN-Print
978-0-7591-0731-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7591-1525-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
163
Product type
Edited Book
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CONTENTS No access
Preface No access
Series Editor's Introduction No access
Introduction No access
I. The Families and the Interviews No access Pages 1 - 22
II. The Breakdown of the Husband's Status No access Pages 23 - 48
III. Predepression Husband-Wife Relations and their Effect upon the Status of the Unemployed Man No access Pages 49 - 65
IV. Personality Changes of the Unemployed Husband and His Status No access Pages 66 - 83
V. The Unemployed Father and the Young Child No access Pages 84 - 91
VI. The Unemployed Father and the Adolescent Child No access Pages 92 - 115
VII. Other Effects of Unemployment upon Family Life No access Pages 116 - 133
