Michael Bittman is Seniro Research Fellow in the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales and author of Juggling Time (1991).Jocelyn Pixley is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of New South Wales and author of Citizenship and Employment (1993).

• List of tables and figuresList of abbreviationsAcknowledgementsPreface1 Is the myth of the nuclear family dead?2 The other life of the family3 The rise of intimacy4 Working for nothing5 At home: the more things change, the more theystay the same6 Pseudomutuality: the disjunction between domesticinequality and the ideal of equality7 Economics, breadwinning and family relations8 How the family is a problem for the state9 The greatest welfare system ever devised?NotesReferencesIndex

Michael Bittman is Seniro Research Fellow in the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales and author of Juggling Time (1991).Jocelyn Pixley is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of New South Wales and author of Citizenship and Employment (1993).

• List of tables and figuresList of abbreviationsAcknowledgementsPreface1 Is the myth of the nuclear family dead?2 The other life of the family3 The rise of intimacy4 Working for nothing5 At home: the more things change, the more theystay the same6 Pseudomutuality: the disjunction between domesticinequality and the ideal of equality7 Economics, breadwinning and family relations8 How the family is a problem for the state9 The greatest welfare system ever devised?NotesReferencesIndex

Michael Bittman is Seniro Research Fellow in the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales and author of Juggling Time (1991).Jocelyn Pixley is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of New South Wales and author of Citizenship and Employment (1993).

• List of tables and figuresList of abbreviationsAcknowledgementsPreface1 Is the myth of the nuclear family dead?2 The other life of the family3 The rise of intimacy4 Working for nothing5 At home: the more things change, the more theystay the same6 Pseudomutuality: the disjunction between domesticinequality and the ideal of equality7 Economics, breadwinning and family relations8 How the family is a problem for the state9 The greatest welfare system ever devised?NotesReferencesIndex