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The Unemployed Man and His Family - The Effect of Unemployment Upon the Status of the Man in Fifty-Nine Families (Hardcover, Updated Edition)
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The Unemployed Man and His Family - The Effect of Unemployment Upon the Status of the Man in Fifty-Nine Families (Hardcover, Updated Edition)
Series: Classics in Gender Studies
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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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