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family wage: a standalone construct

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Economic history

the demand that a male worker's wage be high enough to support a wife and children at home, read as a working-class family strategy.

In economic history, family wage refers to the demand that a male worker's wage be high enough to support a wife and children at home, read as a working-class family strategy. This meaning comes from Humphries (1977) in Cambridge Journal of Economics.[1]

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References

Humphries, J. (1977). Class struggle and the persistence of the working-class family. Cambridge Journal of Economics. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a035361

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