The resources of poverty: women and survival in a Mexican city

"Examination of problems faced by working-class families in Guadalajara. Bringing women and children to the center of her analysis, the author explores the effects of an uneven labor market on the structure and organization of households, revealing a highly homogenous working class, united in i...

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1. Verfasser: González de la Rocha, Mercedes (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford u.a. Blackwell 1994
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Studies in urban and social change
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Zusammenfassung:"Examination of problems faced by working-class families in Guadalajara. Bringing women and children to the center of her analysis, the author explores the effects of an uneven labor market on the structure and organization of households, revealing a highly homogenous working class, united in its survival instinct and in its dependence upon the women of the family for the defense of its standards of living"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.. - http://www.loc.gov/hlas/
Beschreibung:XVIII, 311 S.
ISBN:0631192247
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