Labors Appropriate to Their Sex : Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900-1930 PDF
by Hutchison Elizabeth Quay Hutchison
Edited by Levenson Deborah T. Levenson
Part of the Latin America Otherwise series
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In addition to population and industrial censuses, Hutchison culls published and archival sources to illuminate such misconceptions and to reveal how women's paid labor became a locus of anxiety for a society confronting social problems-both real and imagined-that were linked to industrialization and modernization. The limited options of working women were viewed by politicians, elite women, industrialists, and labor organizers as indicative of a society in crisis, she claims, yet their struggles were also viewed as the potential springboard for reform. Labors Appropriate to Their Sex thus demonstrates how changing norms concerning gender and work were central factors in conditioning the behavior of both male and female workers, relations between capital and labor, and political change and reform in Chile.
This study will be rewarding for those whose interests lie in labor, gender, or Latin American studies; as well as for those concerned with the histories of early feminism, working-class women, and sexual discrimination in Latin America.
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- Pages:360 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:15/11/2001
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:360 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:15/11/2001
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- ISBN:9780822381310