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Fishers at work, workers at sea : a Puerto Rican journey through labor and refuge /
Small-scale fishing, a house-hold based enterprise in Puerto Rico, rarely provides sufficient income for a family, but it anchors their culture and sense of themselves within that culture. Even when family members must engage in wage work to supplement house-hold income, they think of themselves as...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
©2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Small-scale fishing, a house-hold based enterprise in Puerto Rico, rarely provides sufficient income for a family, but it anchors their culture and sense of themselves within that culture. Even when family members must engage in wage work to supplement house-hold income, they think of themselves as fishers. Liche typifies these wage workers: "When he was quite young, he left the island to struggle in other lands, to work, to raise a family, to send home the money he earned. Ten, twenty, thirty years passed ... during which he did not once fish or even see the ocean. But in a boat-building f |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 265 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-261) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781439907634 1439907633 |