Transforming Private Life I.The Market and the Family A.Tradition v. Modernity B.Schumpeter’s Paradox II.The United States as a Case Study A.The Early American Family B.Women in Industrialization C.Rising Standards D.Changing Family Patterns III.Development and Gender Roles: South Korea A.Growth and Equality B.Decline of Tradition IV.Problems A.Culture Shock B.Conservative alliance and poverty C.Governmental Vacuum

Family Traditional Modern

Schumpeter’s Paradox Capitalism destroys the institutions upon which it is based (creative destruction). –Individual replaces family as core economic unit. –Government assumes the protective functions of the family. Joseph A. Schumpeter

The Early American Family Prime family, 1852

Women at Work By 1900, 13.4% of American women work for wages Chicago laundry, 1903

Prostitution Single men –Immigration –Urbanization Women’s Choices –Marriage –Sweated Labor Coercion & Fraud Denver brothel, 1895

Shifting Incomes How do you explain this?

Shifting Incomes, continued 1.Comparative Advantage Women do what they do best, pay others to provide child care 2.Women work in growth sectors Clerical Health care 3.Legal Equality Title 7, Civil Rights Act of 1964

Family Planning Education Technology –Birth Control Pill (1960) Law –Griswold (1965)

Marriage As women earn more money and gain control over fertility, they marry later.

Divorce As women’s incomes rise, the divorce rate climbs.

Premarital Sex Increasing numbers of women engage in sex before marriage Cohabitation rises from 0.2% to 7.1% between

Political Struggle Rush LimbaughRep. J. Thomas Helfin

South Korean Economy GNP (bns. Of current dollars) Per capita GNP (current dollars) ,5975,88310,548 Employment structure (%) Agriculture, forestry and fishery Mining and manufacturing Others Unemployment rate (%) Non-agricultural unemployment (%)

Gender in Korea Years Life expectancy Labor force participation rate Wage ratio female to male (male=100) Tertiary education enrolment rate MaleFemaleMaleFemaleWageMaleFemale

Population Control NationTotalAvg. annual (millions)growth rate (%) China9811, Japan South Korea Indonesia Philippines Singapore Bangladesh India

Divorce Note the speed with which change occurs in developing nations today: –Korean divorce rate rises from 0.5 to 3.0 in 20 years. –US sees same jump over 100 years.

Global Prostitution Seoul, Korea circa 2000

Problems Culture Shock –Reactionary trends Alliance between cultural conservatives and corporations –Without political rights, poor women stay poor Governmental vacuum –Human trafficking –Sexually Transmitted Diseases Reverend Moon