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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Griffith, David, 1951-
Autres auteurs: Valdés Pizzini, Manuel, 1954-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©2002.
Sujets:
Fishers > Puerto Rico.
Fishers > Puerto Rico > Interviews.
Fisheries > Puerto Rico.
Wages > Fishers > Puerto Rico.
Household surveys > Puerto Rico.
Puerto Ricans > Florida.
Puerto Ricans > New York (State) > New York.
Migrant labor > Puerto Rico.
Migrant labor > United States.
Pêcheurs > Porto Rico.
Pêcheurs > Porto Rico > Entretiens.
Pêches > Porto Rico.
Salaires > Pêcheurs > Porto Rico.
Ménages (Statistique) > Enquêtes > Porto Rico.
Portoricains > Floride.
Portoricains > New York (État) > New York.
Travailleurs migrants > Porto Rico.
Travailleurs migrants > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Knowledge Capital.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > General.
Fisheries
Fishers
Household surveys
Migrant labor
Puerto Ricans
Wages > Fishers
Fischer
Florida
New York (State) > New York
Puerto Rico
United States
Interviews
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Preface
  • Divided selves: Domestic production and wage labor in Puerto Rico and anthropology
  • Palatable coercion: Fishing in Puerto Rican history
  • Puerto Rican fisheries
  • Chiripas: Working class opportunity and semiproletarianization
  • Injury and therapy
  • Road less traveled: Proletarianization and its discontents
  • Power games: Work versus leisure along Puerto Rico's coast
  • fragments of refuge
  • References
  • Index
  • Photographs follow page 120.

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