Bevat de volgende bijdragen: The rise and decline of the male breadwinner family?: an overview of the debate / door Angélique Janssens; The origins and expansion of the male breadwinner family: the case of nineteenth-century Britain / door Sarah Horrell and Jane Humphries; Gendered exclusion: domesticity and dependence in Bengal / door Samita Sen; Breadwinning patterns and family exogenous factors: workers at the tobacco factory of Seville during the industrialization process, 1887-1945 / door Lina Gálvez-Muñoz; Family, work and wages: the Stéphanois Region of France, 1840-1914 / door Michael Hanagan; Welfare state attitudes to the male breadwinning system: the United States and Sweden in comparative perspective / door Lena Sommestad; Comparing the post-war Germanies: breadwinner ideology and women's employment in the divided nation, 1948-1970 / door Christine von Oertzen en Almut Rietzschel.