House Work - Work Strategies

Work Strategies

In sociology, household work strategy is the division of labour between members of a household, whether implicit or the result of explicit decision–making, with the alternatives weighed up in a simplified type of cost-benefit analysis. It is a plan for the relative deployment of household members' time between the three domains of employment:

1. in the market economy, including home-based self-employment second jobs, in order to obtain money to buy goods and services in the market;
2. domestic production work, such as cultivating a vegetable patch or raising chickens, purely to supply food to the household; and
3. domestic consumption work to provide goods and services directly within the household, such as cooking meals, child–care, household repairs, or the manufacture of clothes and gifts.

Household work strategies may vary over the life-cycle, as household members age, or with the economic environment; they may be imposed by one person or be decided collectively.