Family Budgets and Standards of Living in a Port City of Northern Spain: A Coruña, 1924
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The main goal of this article it to determine the reach of men’s wages within the purchasing power of working and fishing families in Galicia’s principal port city, A Coruña. I look at which occupations provided fathers, heads of the household, with sufficient income for the reproduction of the family unit, what the contributions of wives to the family income were, and whether or not wives’ contributions were essential for family subsistence. Through the reconstruction of family budgets, I establish, in short, whether the “male breadwinner model” was prevalent in A Coruña during the mid-1920s. I look at the main occupations of this urban economy, which, even in the first decades of the 20th century, was an important commercial and fishing center, second only to Vigo in the region.
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