Published by Doubleday in 1975, Home, Inc. argues that unpaid work in the home is a crucial but underrated contributor to our nation’s wealth - and health.
As Scott Burns persuasively details in the book, the average American family is far more productive than the Internal Revenue Service recognizes. He writes:
"We give absolutely no economic recognition to the importance of the one single institution responsible for the day-to-day care and maintenance of human beings. The household -- the family -- is an institution that tends our hearts, minds and bodies. No other institution has such clear or complete charge or such enormous responsibility.
"At best, every program of social care and welfare is compensation for deficiencies in some households, and there is no institution, public or private, that could be expected to assume even a small portion of the responsibility that belongs to the household."
Home, Inc. is recognized as a "fundamental work on the non-money economy of the household" by The Dallas Morning News.
