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Factory daughters : gender, household dynamics, and rural industrialization in Java /

Looking at the households where Javanese women live and the factories where they labour, Diane Wolf reveals the contradictions, constraints and changes in women's lives in the Third World and identifies the complex dynamics of class, gender, agrarian change and industrialization in rural Java.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wolf, Diane L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Conceptualizing Poor Women, Household Dynamics, and Industrialization
  • 2. Industrial and Agrarian Change in Java
  • 3. Javanese Women and the Family
  • 4. The Villages
  • 5. The Factories
  • 6. Life in a Spinning Mill
  • 7. Determinants of Factory Employment
  • 8. Factory Daughters and the Family Economy
  • 9. Marriage
  • 10. The Family Economy Revisited: Daughters, Work, and the Life Cycle.