The Crossroads of Class and Gender

Klappentext In this innovative exploration of the interaction between economic processes and social relations, Lourdes Beneria and Martha Roldan examine the effect of homework on gender and family dynamics. Their fieldwork in Mexico City during 1981-82 has enabled them to provide important new empirical data on industrial piecework performed by women as well as intimate glimpses of these women's lives which place that piecework in context. Tracing the stages of production from home to jobber, workshop, and manufacturer (often a multinational corporation), the authors demonstrate the way in which the work and lives of these women are connected through subcontracting to the national and often international system of production.

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• Authors: Lourdes Beneria, Lourdes (Cornell University USA) Beneria, Beneria Lourdes, Martha Roldan
• Assisted by: Martha Roldan (Photographs), Catherine R. FWD>Stimpson (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1987
• EAN: 9780226042329
• ISBN: 978-0-226-04232-9
• No. of pages: 211
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 225 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Women in Culture and Society Series; Women in Culture & Society (Pa; Women in Culture & Society (Pa; Women in Culture and Society; Women in Culture & Society Series WCS
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Mexico, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls