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The study of the households in Drakino and Spas-Korkodino in the period 1869 to 1886, also shows that this diversity should be attributed to the peasant family's conscious strategy according to the particular circumstances within the household or in the environment.
The Russian household's development cycle was governed by such factors as virilocal residence, patriarchal principles saying that the household could develop only according to the male kinship line, seniority in the attainment of headship, and partial inheritance of property in connection to household divisions.
Thus, the acceleration in the frequency of household divisions in the post-emancipation period, cannot be attributed to all villages.
www.hist.uib.no /hovudfag/herdis/her10.html   (2633 words)

  
 Household Cavalry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term Household Cavalry is used across the Commonwealth of Nations to describe the cavalry of the Household Divisions.
The Household Cavalry were called to Windsor Castle on 20th November 1992, to assist with salvage operations in the face of the Great Fire.
Only the Household Cavalry now maintains this tradition, possibly because sergeant derives from the Latin serviens (meaning servant) and members of the Household Cavalry, once drawn exclusively from the gentry and aristocracy, could not be expected to have such a title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Household_Cavalry   (761 words)

  
 Bands of The Household Division
The Bands of the Household Division occupy a unique position in the ceremonial scene and have a worldwide reputation for their musical excellence and versatility.
Two further Bands belong to the Household Cavalry of the Household Division and they are the Band of The Life Guards and the Band of The Blues and Royals.
All the musicians of the Household Division are trained at the Royal Military School of Music at Kneller Hall, near Twickenham, the Army's centre of excellence for military music.
www.army.mod.uk /ceremonialandheritage/household_bands.htm   (360 words)

  
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The member specializing in household skills may enter the labor market part time if the domestic workload permits this — something that is more likely to be the case early and late in a marriage corresponding to the years before children are born and after they start school or leave the household.
The implication is that cross-national differences in the division of household labor are largely a function of the interaction of skill specificity and the size of the public sector.
In line with the discussion in the household division of labor section, however, it can be argued that what matters in terms of women’s outside options in the labor market is not mere availability of jobs but relative earnings power of women.
www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~iversen/PDFfiles/IversenRosenbluth2003.doc   (7552 words)

  
 Bank of England|Publications|Main Publications|Quarterly Bulletin|Household Sector Articles
While 40% of total outstanding household debt is owed by those spending more than a quarter of their gross income on servicing their debts, the share of debt owed by those currently with debt problems is lower than a decade ago.
Deteriorating household sector balance sheets were widely thought to have exacerbated the recession in the early 1990s.
Overall, changes in the distribution of household debt in recent years suggest that the household sector may be somewhat more vulnerable to an adverse shock than the aggregate measures indicate.
www.bankofengland.co.uk /publications/quarterlybulletin/house.htm   (2810 words)

  
 Davidson Economic Times & Review
Therefore, "it is not simply that household labor is designated as 'women's work,' but that for a woman to engage in it and a man not to engage in it is to draw on and exhibit the 'essential nature' of each" (p.
The fourth perspective explaining the gender-based division of household labor is the economic dependency model used by Brines (1994).
The concept of the division of household labor as a micro-level exchange based on dependency rests on the idea that household labor is performed in return for economic support.
www.davidson.edu /student/organizations/detr/article.asp?article=features2&issue=s02   (5320 words)

  
 United Nations Statistics Division - Household Surveys in Developing Countries
Household surveys are an important source of socio-economic data.
The main objective of this handbook is to assist national survey statisticians to design household surveys in an efficient and reliable manner, and to allow users to make greater use of survey generated data.
Chapter XIV discusses issues pertinent to the development of a budget for the myriad phases and functions in a household survey and includes a number of examples and case studies that are used to draw comparisons and to illustrate the important budgeting issues discussed in the chapter.
unstats.un.org /unsd/hhsurveys   (1275 words)

  
 IFPRI--Food Consumption and Nutrition Division Discussion Paper Brief
The situation is quite different in developing countries where households are large, children actively participate in productive activities, and households provide much of their own food, fuel, water, and child care, in addition to pursuing a multitude of income-generating activities.
The head of household and his or her spouse provide most of the labor for most activities; other adult members of the household work less.
What appears to keep household size in check are problems of shirking and monitoring, with the household head and his or her spouse working harder than other members except daughters-in-law.
www.ifpri.org /divs/fcnd/dp/dp73.htm   (1356 words)

  
 Tracy L.M. Kennedy
Examining how the household Internet is becoming domesticated should also address how a technology shapes, and becomes a part of one's gender identity, and how women and men often relate to stereotypical images of gender identity (such as men being technologically competent) (Rommes 2002).
Households are likely to put the internet in communal areas such as the dining room, family room, spare room or basement.
This research illustrates how people resourcefully manage household spaces, how they interpret what is happening in the home, how they construct and improvise their household internet activities, and make decisions regarding the household internet from moment-to-moment.
www.chass.utoronto.ca /~tkennedy/about.htm   (1347 words)

  
 HINTRA-MARITAL SHARING RULES WITH EVIDENCE FROM TURKEY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Economists have long neglected distribution issues within the household by considering the household as a homogeneous and harmonious decision-making unit where the spouses have equal power.
A substantial body of literature suggests that a woman's power within the household is related to her contribution to the household's financial resources (see Browning et al (1992) and Phipps and Burton (1992), for instance).
That is, if we pool total household income and also total personal expenditures of husband and wife and compare the percentage of income shares to the percentage of personal expenditure shares, we can get another proxy for dominance.
www.sba.luc.edu /orgs/meea/volume1/procson.html   (2858 words)

  
 Grim Stalker's Imperial Guard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The second unit is the Imperial Household Cavalry Rough Rider Regiment equipped with horses.
During the Wars of Vindications, The Teran Life Guards contributed men to both Household Cavalry Regiments, the second of which was described by supreme lord General Brian Horrocks as "the finest armoured regiment I have ever seen".
The regiment was especially favoured by Primarch Ferrus manus of the Iron Hands Legion and, with the appointment of the Rogal Dorn of the Imperial Fist Legion as the regimental colonel, was elevated to the status of Imperial Household Cavalry.
www.40k.ca /imperialguard/division.shtml   (1306 words)

  
 Household Hazardous Waste Collection Events or Facilities in Colorado   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Household chemical waste collections are limited to residents of the county or municipality that sponsors the event or facility
Household hazardous waste collection facilities normally do not accept biological wastes, radioactive wastes (smoke alarms), compressed gas cylinders (propane canisters/tanks), PCBs, or ammunition/explosives.
Will accept most household hazardous wastes except explosives, radioactive wastes, medical wastes, compressed gas cylinders or electrical equipment.
www.cdphe.state.co.us /hm/hhwcollect.asp   (1861 words)

  
 Session 137   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
This paper examines household headship succession and household division in eight such Banner populations from Northeast China organized under the imperial household agency (neiwufu).
The division of household property in agriculture societies lies at the center of the transmission of economic control from one generation to the next.
In his presentation of case studies of household division as it operated in Qing-dynasty Taiwan and Republican-era North China, Wakefield determines that equal division was the rule, yet living parents and single siblings had property rights as well.
www.aasianst.org /absts/1999abst/inter/i-137.htm   (1031 words)

  
 Trooping the Colour World Encyclopedia, India encyclopedia, Featured Articles, Cover Stories, World wide Informations @ ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
British Army regiments of Foot Guards and Horse Guards, collectively known as the Household Division, still Troop the Colour at Horse Guards Parade in London as part of the Queen's Birthday celebration.
There are currently five regiments of Foot Guards and one regiment of Household Cavalry in the Household Division and each year a battalion of one of the Foot Guard regiments will be selected to troop its colours in the ceremony.
The King's Troop and the Household Cavalry pass by at the sitting trot, to the tune of "The Keel Row," which is common to both regiments.
www.mirchigold.com /index.php?title=Trooping_the_Colour   (1653 words)

  
 Unbenanntes Dokument   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The aim of this project is to study the process of the household division of domestic labor in the context of partnership and family development.
By combining quantitative and qualitative longitudinal approaches, we seek to decipher the dynamic decision processes underlying the gendered division of household labor.
Contribution to the development of new, theoretically driven quantitative and qualitative longitudinal tools for examining the household division of labor in the context of the test panel project of the DFG Priority Program 1161.
www.pairfam.uni-bremen.de /english/dfg-Schwerpunkt/teilnehmende%20Projekte%20E/pairDFGProjBLOSSFELDe.htm   (261 words)

  
 Satisfaction with housework - AIFS Conference Paper 1996 - Australian Institute of Family Studies
One of the paradoxes that emerges in studies of the domestic division of labour is the large percentage of women who seem untroubled by this clearly inequitable division of labour.
Many studies have found that women are satisfied with the division of household labour despite the fact that they are responsible for the bulk of the work (Benin and Agostinelli 1988; Blair and Johnson 1992; Lennon and Rosenfield 1994; Greenstein 1996; Demaris and Longmore 1996).
In other words, wives may be satisfied with the division of household labour if the total number of hours that husbands and wives spend on work, paid and unpaid, is similar.
www.aifs.gov.au /institute/afrcpapers/baxter.html   (4007 words)

  
 Environmental Division - Household Hazardous Waste   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Household hazardous products can be found in most homes.
Accepted materials include all household chemicals, cleaning products, paint- and automotive-related products, lawn and garden products, and used electronics.
This service provides convenient at-home pick-up of household hazardous waste to those who are unable to transport their household hazardous waste and do not have readily available assistance from others to deliver their waste to an established collection site.
www.cityofboise.org /public_works/services/solid_waste/house_haz/index.aspx?id=home   (274 words)

  
 Annual Report 2005 - Apparel and Household Textile Division   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
These divisions reflected operating results that were, in the main, comparable with last year.
The division has the benefit of being close to its markets and this, combined with flexibility, quick response and short lead times, is one of the economic factors that cannot be matched by imported merchandise, and contributes to the division’s overall success rate.
The continued uncertainty regarding the terms and conditions of the extension and utilisation/trading of the Duty Credit Certificate programme is of concern, and failure to finalise this issue shortly could impact on the division’s ability to continue exporting.
www.anomaly.co.za /2005/apparel_textile.htm   (701 words)

  
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During implementation the division got into “a bit of a resource crunch” and Kahler also had to deal with some unexpected turnover in the demand-planning group.
In fiscal year 1998, he says, the household division’s forecast accuracy was about 51 percent.
One is the increased safety stock that the division must keep on hand to balance the longer lead times involved in importing an increased volume of goods from Europe.
www.supplychainbrain.com /archives/03.03.saralee.htm?adcode=5   (2405 words)

  
 Apparel and Household Textile Division   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Individual manufacturers within the division are in the forefront of submitting employment equity plans and introducing recognised training programmes to uplift productivity.
Difficult trading conditions, particularly in the menswear divisions, resulted in the group once again showing a marked drop in profits for the year.
The new dispensation regarding the export of goods in the United States of America, both duty and quota free, is an opportunity that is of paramount importance in all divisions of the group.
www.anomaly.co.za /2000/apparel.htm   (880 words)

  
 NLC - Publications
To marry or not to marry: Marital status and the household division of labour.
Baxter, J. Cohabitation vs marriage: Marital status and the division of household labour.
To marry or not to marry: The impact of marital status on the division of household labour.
lifecourse.anu.edu.au /publications   (1295 words)

  
 Transportation Division - Household Goods Shipments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
GSA Zone Offices can provide a listing of available carriers for interstate, intrastate, and international, including American offshore movements, or you may access information from the Interagency Transportation Management System (ITMS) or CD-ROM provided by the Heartland Zone.
Carriers provided are ranked based on the level of Federal customer satisfaction with past carrier performance and the carrier's discount.
Basic carrier performance requirements and program standards are published in the GSA Household Goods Tender of Service.
apps.fss.gsa.gov /transtrav/householdShipments.cfm   (103 words)

  
 The Household Division - Professional UK home & garden maintenance & improvement business   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Household Division was originally a home and garden maintenance company, set-up to respond to the needs of property owners who were having to locate and employ different tradespersons for different tasks with varying degrees of success.
The Household Division now gives householders the opportunity to use a known, trusted and reliable business in a business sector where none previously existed.
It is a fact that homeowners generally do not always have either the time, skills or equipment to maintain and improve their properties.
www.thehouseholddivision.com /about.html   (272 words)

  
 Fenjia: Household Division and Inheritance in Qing and Republican China (Select Books)
The division of household property in agricultural societies lies at the centre of the transmission of economic control from one generation to the next.
In assembling an impressive body of data concerned with fenjia (household division) in Qing (1644-1912) and the Republican (1912-1949) China, the author investigates one of the central topics in understanding how Chinese society functioned and continues to function.
In the presentation of his case studies, the author determines that equal division was the rule, yet living parents and single siblings had property rights as well.
www.selectbooks.com.sg /titles/34192.htm   (160 words)

  
 HOUSEHOLD DIVISION OF WORK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Division of Labor                                                                                 Variables  99 to 148                            25
Household Division Of Work                I                                               Variables  1271 to 1305                      218
Household Division Of Work                V                                             Variables  1402 to 1437                      244
www.worldcultures.org /SCCS2.htm   (1396 words)

  
 Housework
A study in the Netherlands determined that division of household labor was a source for conflicts in 91 percent of its partnerships.
So one sociologist decided that, yes, we are doing some things faster – with new gadgets like the microwave and the washer/dryer – but we're also relying on outside help for more of housework, and – probably more to the point – we are just not doing the rest.
The reduction in women doing household labor, with an increase (but disproportional one) in men's work is happening elsewhere, too, such as in The Netherlands.
www.pobronson.com /factbook/pages/278.html   (1849 words)

  
 Division of Household Chores Affects Marital Bliss [Free Republic]
Division of Household Chores Affects Marital Bliss [Free Republic]
She analyzed data from 860 couples who participated in the National Survey of Families and Households taken from 1987 to 1988, and from 1992 to 1994.
Dissatisfaction was measured by the couple's reported frequency of arguments, consideration of divorce and thinking the marriage was in trouble.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b853d9160ff.htm   (586 words)

  
 The Household Division - Professional home maintenance, keyholding & lettings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The household division is a professional home maintenance, keyholding and lettings company operating throughout London.
The Household Division prides itself on customer service and strives to ensure your total satisfaction.
All The Household Division staff are qualified, trained, criminally vetted, uniformed and fully insured.
www.thehouseholddivision.com   (142 words)

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