unpaid household labour
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunpaid,householdandLabour
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unpaid
adjective
uk/ʌnˈpeɪd/us/ʌnˈpeɪd/
An unpaid debt, tax, etc. has not ...
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household
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/ˈhaʊs.həʊld/us/ˈhaʊs.hoʊld/
a group of people, often a family, who ...
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labour
adjective
uk/ˈleɪ.bər/us/ˈleɪ.bɚ/
belonging or relating to the ...
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(Definition ofunpaid,householdandlabourfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofunpaid household labour
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We first calculated the total amount of time actually spent inunpaidhouseholdlabour by all the people in a person's household combined.
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In this way, the household's necessary time inunpaidhouseholdlabour would increase.
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A second necessity of life is 'necessary time inunpaidhouseholdlabour': the amount of time it takes to run a household like yours.
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Using the procedures described yields estimates of 'necessary time inunpaidhouseholdlabour' for households of those different sorts.
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A person's necessary time inunpaidhouseholdlabour was then determined in the following way.
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In this way, we estimated a person's equivalentunpaidhouseholdlabour time.
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Still, they are the best we can do if we are to captureunpaidhouseholdlabour time.
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The same is true of time spent inunpaidhouseholdlabour and personal care.
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These different household types reflect differing amounts ofunpaidhouseholdlabour associated with childcare.
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The amount of time that is necessary for the household as a whole to devote tounpaidhouseholdlabour activities can be reckoned similarly.
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Attempts to put a monetary value on leisure time orunpaidhouseholdproduction suffer all those familiar difficulties.
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This definition excludesunpaidhouseholdproduction, voluntary nonprofit services, and criminal activities.
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In those cases paid labour,unpaidhouseholdlabour, and personal care should be treated as instances of spare time or leisure.
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That is the total amount of 'necessary time inunpaidhouseholdlabour' that must be performed by the household as a whole.
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There is no agreement on how much time is minimally necessary to spend in paid labour - orunpaidhouseholdlabour, either.
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Children might contributeunpaidhouseholdlabour as well, but we assume adults are ultimately responsible for doing everything strictly necessary to run the household.
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Firstly, while children might help withunpaidhouseholdlabour, they were assumed to have no responsibility for the household's strictly necessary time inunpaidhouseholdlabour.
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Our measure of temporal autonomy, discretionary time, takes account of people's necessities in those three arenas of everyday life - paid labour,unpaidhouseholdlabour, and personal care.
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Hence, we define the number of hours of discretionary time per week as follows: discretionary time = 168 - necessary paid labour time - necessaryunpaidhouseholdlabour time - necessary personal care time.
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The basic strategy is to: sum the amount of time actually spent inunpaidhouseholdlabour, find the mean of that, and subtract one standard deviation from that mean.
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