Puerto Rican women and work : bridges in transnational labor /

Puerto Rican Women and Work: Bridges in Transnational Labor is the only comprehensive study of the role of Puerto Rican women workers in the evolution of a transnational labor force in the twentieth century. This book examines Puerto Rican women workers, both in Puerto Rico and on the U.S. mainland....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ortiz, Altagracia, 1941- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1996.
Colección:Puerto Rican studies.
Temas:
Puerto Rican women > Employment > United States > History.
Women > Employment > Puerto Rico > History.
Portoricaines > Travail > États-Unis > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > General.
Puerto Rican women > Employment
Women > Employment
Puerto Rico
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Needlewomen under the New Deal in Puerto Rico, 1920-1945 / Eileen Boris
  • 'En la aguja y el pedal eché la hiel': Puerto Rican women in the garment industry of New York City, 1920-1980 / Altagracia Ortiz
  • Toward bilingual education: Puerto Rican women teachers in New York City schools, 1947-1967 / Virginia Sánchez Korrol
  • The Impact of job losses on Puerto Rican women in the Middle Atlantic Region, 1970-1980 / Alice Colón-Warren
  • Our two full-time jobs: women garment workers balance factory and domestic demands in Puerto Rico / Carmen A. Pérez-Herranz
  • Gender and politics: grassroots leadership among Puerto Rican women in a health struggle / Marya Muñoz-Vázquez
  • Negotiating gender, work, and welfare: familia as productive labor among Puerto Rican women in New York City / Rosa M. Torruellas, Rina Benmayor, and Ana Juarbe
  • New tappings on the keys: changes in work and gender roles for women clerical workers in Puerto Rico / Geraldine J. Casey.

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