National accounting construction explicitly excluded housework, defining work primarily done by women in the home as unproductive.
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What counts as productive? Redefining ‘producers’ in economic discourse, 1890–1960 — National accounts institutionalize commodified utility and convert productive labour into paid labour
the most contentious decision was to exclude housework from the accounts
https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2024.2404355#unit-6-p6
What counts as productive? Redefining ‘producers’ in economic discourse, 1890–1960 — National accounts institutionalize commodified utility and convert productive labour into paid labour
the most contentious decision was to exclude housework from the accounts
https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2024.2404355#unit-6-p6
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