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DOWNSIZING (Search for related entries in the library)
Scope Note: A trend in private business and public organizations to scale back operations and/or cut the labour force. Economic hardship is often used as justification, though it is frequently applied in settings that continue to earn enormous profit.
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DRAMA
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DUAL CITIZENSHIP
DUAL SYSTEMS THEORY (Search for related entries in the library)
Scope Note: A strand of socialist feminist theory dominant in the 1980s that characterizes patriarchy and capitalism as autonomous systems which operate in tandem.
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DUAL-CAREER FAMILIES
DUAL-EARNER COUPLES
DUAL-EARNER FAMILIES (Search for related entries in the library)
Scope Note: Families in which both partners contribute to the earnings of a family through participation in the paid labour force. The concentration of dual-earner families grew considerably in the post-WWII era in many western nations.
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DUAL-INCOME FAMILIES
DUTCH AMERICANS
DUTCH CANADIANS