Idea of male as sole breadwinner first arose in the Netherlands. But even there, it wasn't dominant as late as 1900, due to textile-based wages of women & children plus non-wage income from land. So before 1900 & after 1975, it's nonsense. #econo
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RT @EcHistSocReview: now available on #earlyview: "Living standards and the life cycle: reconstructing household income and consumption in…
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The editors of the Economic History Review are pleased to announce that, 'Living standards and the life cycle: reconstructing household income and consumption in the early twentieth-century Netherlands', by Corinne Boter, has been published in early view:
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