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Sexual Division of Labor in Adam Smith's Work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

Sumitra Shah
Sumitra Shah
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Division of Administration and Economics, St. John's University, Jamaica, NY 11439.
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It is a fact universally acknowledged that a woman's work is never done and often not counted. It is a fact equally universally acknowledged that most people in the economics profession are not terribly interested in such a fact. It is my purpose to explore this lack of interest by tracing it to the place of sexual division of labor in Adam Smith's work.

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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , June 2006 , pp. 221 - 241
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Copyright © The History of Economics Society 2006

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