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- Title
Crust or crumb?: Intrahousehold resource allocation and male breadwinning in late Victorian Britain.
- Authors
Horrell, Sara; Oxley, Deborah
- Abstract
This article investigates household budgets from a survey of industrial workers conducted in 1889 and 1890 in Great Britain and consequences for intra household resource allocation of reliance on a male breadwinner. The model of intra household resource allocation raises questions for economic historians. Late-nineteenth-century Britain provides an excellent opportunity to assess the consequences for girls of dependency on males. The household headed by a male breadwinner had not yet become the norm, and regions and industries still exhibited distinctly different employment patterns and household structures. The literature on the emergence of the male-breadwinner family indicates industry-specific patterns of employment and provides insights into the links between income levels, women's paid work, and expected resource allocation outcomes. This discusses the representativeness of the United States Bureau of Labor survey which provides the data for this article. It also establishes whether fathers' earnings were adequate for the support of the family, referring both to contemporary poverty lines and nutritional content of diet.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; HOUSEHOLD surveys; RESOURCE allocation; RESOURCE management; LABOR market; VALUATION
- Publication
Economic History Review, 1999, Vol 52, Issue 3, p494
- ISSN
0013-0117
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-0289.00134