Sunbelt working mothers : reconciling family and factory /
The recession of the 1980s triggered important economic and cultural changes in the United States, and working women were at the center of these changes. Sunbelt Working Mothers compares the experiences of Mexican-American and white mothers employed in apparel and electronics factories in Albuquerqu...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1993.
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Colección: | Anthropology of contemporary issues.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Mediating Contradiction and Difference: The Everyday Construction of Work and Family
- 2. The Context of Sunbelt Industrialization
- 3. Women's Industrial Work in the Family Economy
- 4. Mediating Contracdictions in Hierarchical Plants
- 5. Management Ideology and Practice in Participative Plants
- 6. Strategies for the Household Division of Labor
- 7. Strategies for Day Care while Mothers Work
- 8. Kin, Friends, and Husbands: Support Networks for Working Mothers
- 9. Conclusion: Living with Contradictions
- Appendix: Mother's Providing Role, Occupation, Income, and Household Division of Labor.