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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.

DRAMA 

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.

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.

    DUAL-INCOME FAMILIES 

    DUTCH AMERICANS 

    DUTCH CANADIANS