Helen I Safa

The Myth Of The Male Breadwinner

Women And Industrialization In The Caribbean

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the debate about the effects of paid employment on women through studies of women industrial workers in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba. It focuses on following areas of women's lives: wages and working conditions; the family, life cycle, and household composition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 351g
• ISBN-13: 9780813312125
• ISBN-10: 0813312124
• Artikelnr.: 21433689

Autorenporträt

Helen I Safa

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Gender and Industrialization in the Caribbean Basin
The Male Breadwinner and Women's Wage Labor
Women Workers and the Rise and Decline of Puerto Rico's Operation Bootstrap
The Dominican Republic: Export Manufacturing and the Economic Crisis
Cuba: Revolution and Gender Inequality
Conclusion: Economic Restructuring and Gender Subordination