HOUSEHOLD LABOR, THE FAMILY, AND MACROECONOMIC INSTABILITY IN THE UNITED-STATES - 1940S-1990S

This paper studies the contribution household labor and the family mad e towards macroeconomic stability in the United States during the post war war (1940s-1990s). Household labor has the potential to promote hu man communication, nutrition, emotional development, preparation for w ork, population growth, consumption, a latent reserve army of labor, t otal labor time, and work transfer in supermarkets. Such activities, o n balance, positively conditioned postwar growth in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. But as the postwar boom of the 1950s-1960s progressed contradictory relations became more manifest, which contri buted to the economic deterioration of the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990 s.