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The gendered worlds of Latin American women workers : from household and factory to the union hall and ballot box

Title
The gendered worlds of Latin American women workers : from household and factory to the union hall and ballot box / John D. French and Daniel James, editors.
Publication
Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors
  • French, John D.
  • James, Daniel.
Description
viii, 320 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Comparative and international working-class history
Uniform Title
Comparative and international working-class history.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Squaring the Circle: Women's Factory Labor, Gender Ideology, and Necessity / John D. French and Daniel James -- "Tales Told Out on the Borderlands": Dona Maria's Story, Oral History, and Issues of Gender / Daniel James -- Women Workers in the "Cathedrals of Corned Beef": Structure and Subjectivity in the Argentine Meatpacking Industry / Mirta Zaida Lobato -- Unskilled Worker, Skilled Housewife: Constructing the Working-Class Woman in Sao Paulo, Brazil / Barbara Weinstein -- "My Duty as a Woman": Gender Ideology, Work, and Working-Class Women's Lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1900-1950 / Theresa R. Veccia -- Talking, Fighting, Flirting: Workers' Sociability in Medellin Textile Mills, 1935-1950 / Ann Farnsworth-Alvear -- Women and Working-Class Mobilization in Postwar Sao Paulo, 1945-1948 / John D. French and Mary Lynn Pedersen Cluff -- The Loneliness of Working-Class Feminism: Women in the "Male World" of Labor Unions, Guatemala City, 1970s / Deborah Levenson-Estrada --
  • Morality and Good Habits: The Construction of Gender and Class in the Chilean Copper Mines, 1904-1951 / Thomas Miller Klubock -- Household Patrones: Wife-Beating and Sexual Control in Rural Chile, 1964-1988 / Heidi Tinsman -- Oral History, Identity Formation, and Working-Class Mobilization / John D. French and Daniel James.
ISBN
  • 0822320002 (cloth : acid-free paper)
  • 0822319969 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LCCN
97020053
OCLC
ocm36856905
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries