Sunbelt Working Mothers: Reconciling Family and Factory (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues) - Hardcover

Lamphere, Louise; Zavella, Patricia; Gonzales, Felipe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801427886 ISBN 13: 9780801427886

Verlag: Cornell University Press, 1993

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Book by Lamphere Louise Zavella Patricia Gonzales Felipe E

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The recession of the 1980s triggered important economic and cultural changes in the United States, and working women were at the center of these changes. Sunbelt Working Mothers compares the experiences of Mexican-American and white mothers employed in apparel and electronics factories in Albuquerque and illuminates the ways in which individual women manage the competing demands of two roles. Authors Lamphere, Zavella, Gonzales, and Evans show how these mothers-without the economic resources of highly paid professional women-find day care, divide economic contributions and household responsibilities with spouses or roommates, and obtain emotional support from kin or friends. After an overview of the recent industrialization of the Sunbelt economy, the authors consider how new participative management techniques have given greater flexibility to some women's work lives. Drawing on interviews with married couples and single mothers, they offer an engaging account of representative women's home lives, and conclude that working families are changing. This timely book will be welcomed by students and scholars in the fields of anthropology, sociology, labor studies, women's studies, and social history.

Biografía del autor:

Louise Lamphere is Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. Patricia Zavella is Professor and Chair of Latin American & Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of I'm Neither Here nor There: Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty and coeditor of Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader. Felipe Gonzales is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico. Peter Evans is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Embedded Autonomy, editor of Livable Cities?, and coeditor of Bringing the State Back In.

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• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0801427886
• ISBN 13: 9780801427886
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352