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Time Use, Exploitation, and the Dual‐Career Household: Competing Perspectives
Author(s) -
PHILP BRUCE,
WHEATLEY DAN
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
american journal of economics and sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1536-7150
pISSN - 0002-9246
DOI - 10.1111/j.1536-7150.2011.00784.x
Subject(s) - preference , marxist philosophy , dual (grammatical number) , british household panel survey , consumption (sociology) , time preference , economics , preference theory , inequality , sociology , time use survey , labour economics , demographic economics , neoclassical economics , positive economics , microeconomics , social science , law , political science , mathematics , work (physics) , mathematical analysis , mechanical engineering , politics , engineering , art , literature
A bstract This article evaluates Laibman's reformulation of Marxian exploitation theory, and compares it to two preference‐based analyses of household time use (advanced by Becker and Hakim). Using a quantitative Marxist approach, and the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), we show profound dissatisfaction with working hours for members of dual‐career households, and inequality, by gender, vis‐à‐vis pure consumption time. The results support exploitation‐based theories of the household, and cast doubt on such preference‐based theories of time use.