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Institute for New Economic Thinking
Gender Equality Works for Everyone.
According to Colorado State Professor Elissa Braunstein, macroeconomics has a habit of misunderstanding and even misrepresenting labor. As a result, we see increased gender conflict and structural inequalities in the labor force....
Institute for New Economic Thinking
What is Work? [Nancy Folbre]
What counts as work and what doesn't? Nancy Folbre shows how nearly half of all work done in this country is ignored by economists. She argues that we need to create better measures of non-market income, consumption and...
Library of Congress
Loc: Webcast: History of Household Technology
What was domestic work like during the mid-nineteenth century? References from the Library of Congress help us explore what a homemaker's life was like in the 1800s and how it changed with the invention of washing machines, stoves,...