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Women: Scapegoats and Safety Valves in the Great Depression

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  • Jane Humphries
  • Jane Humphries

    (Department of Economics University of Massachusetts Amherst, Mass)

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This paper employs a historical case study of the struggle between capital and labor in a context of high unemployment and falling production to illustrate the genesis of social pressures which affect the nature of women's oppression. The argument is that women's oppression does not exist in isolation, but is the product of complex interaction between changing economic circumstances and existing ideologies and institutions. My particular purpose is to show that the pressures emanating from a capitalist economic system in crisis exacerbate sex-linked relations of dominance and sub ordination, strengthen traditional ideas, and weaken women's drive for liberation.

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  • Jane Humphries & Jane Humphries, 1976. "Women: Scapegoats and Safety Valves in the Great Depression," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 8(1), pages 98-121, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:8:y:1976:i:1:p:98-121
    DOI: 10.1177/048661347600800108
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    1. Ellen Mutari, 2004. "Brothers and Breadwinners: Legislating Living Wages in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938," Review of Social Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 62(2), pages 129-148.
    2. Ellen Mutari & Marilyn Power & Deborah Figart, 2002. "Neither Mothers Nor Breadwinners: African-American Women's Exclusion From US Minimum Wage Policies, 1912-1938," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(2), pages 37-61.

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