Factory Daughters - Gender, Household Dynamics, and Rural Industrialization in Java

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List of contents

List of Illustrations 
List of Tables 
Acknowledgments 
Introduction 

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 
Conclusion 

Appendix
Notes
Glossary of Indonesian and Javanese Words
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Diane Lauren Wolf is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Diane L. Wolf, Diane Lauren Wolf, Wolf Diane L.
• Assisted by: Diane L. Wolf (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.1994
• EAN: 9780520086579
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08657-9
• No. of pages: 338
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, Indonesia, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General