疲惫之劳:照料劳动的经济史

Careworn: The Economic History of Caring Labor

Journal of Economic History · 2024
被引 14 · 同刊同年前 4%
人大 A-ABS 3

中文导读

经济学家忽视无偿照料劳动,本文利用英国工人维持成本估算其价值,发现历史上无偿家务劳动约占国民总收入20%,需修正标准经济叙事。

Abstract

Economists ignore caring labor since most is provided unpaid. Disregard is unjust, theoretically indefensible, and probably misleading. Valuation requires estimates of time spent and the replacement or opportunity costs of that time. I use the maintenance costs of British workers, costs which cover both the material inputs into upkeep and the domestic services needed to turn commodities into livings, to isolate the costs of paid domestic labor. I then impute the value of unpaid domestic labor from these market equivalents, and aggregate across households without domestic servants. Historically, unpaid domestic labor represented c. 20 percent of total income, a contribution that suggests the need to revise some standard narratives.

无酬照料劳动家务劳动价值历史国民收入核算英国经济史