The Effect of Unemployment Upon the Status of the Man in Fifty-Nine Families
by
Mirra Komarovsky
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2004
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...