Editing Homemaking (section)

==Work strategies==
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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]].<ref name="essex-pahl">[http://www.essex.ac.uk/Sociology/people/staff/pahl.shtm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204011627/http://www.essex.ac.uk/Sociology/people/staff/pahl.shtm|date=December 4, 2008}}</ref><ref name="DivisionsLabour">''Divisions of Labour'' Ray Pahl (1984)</ref> It is a plan for the relative deployment of household members' time between the three domains of [[employment]]:
# in the ''[[market economy]]'', including home-based self-employment second jobs, in order to obtain money to buy goods and services in the market;
# ''domestic production work'', such as cultivating a vegetable patch or raising chickens, purely to supply food to the household; and
# ''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.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O88-householdworkstrategy.html|title=Household work strategy|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia.com|access-date=2015-07-02}}</ref>