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

Author: John D French; Daniel James
Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1997.
Series: Comparative and international working-class history
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Collection of well-researched articles effectively combines gender history and labor history and includes specialized studies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Guatemala. Each article is thoroughly footnoted, revealing broadly-based sources including interviews, memoirs, and government publications, as well as authors' extensive reading in comparable published studies and theoretical literature. Editors  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John D French; Daniel James
ISBN: 0822320002 9780822320005 0822319969 9780822319962
OCLC Number: 36856905
Description: viii, 320 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Squaring the circle / John D. French and Daniel James -- Tales told out on the borderlands / Daniel James -- Women workers in the cathedrals of corned beef / Mirta Zaida Lobato -- Unskilled worker, skilled housewife / Barbara Weinstein -- My duty as a woman / Theresa R. Veccia -- Talking, fighting, flirting / Ann Farnsworth-Alvear -- Women and working-class mobilization in postwar São Paulo, 1945-1948 / John D. French with Mary Lynn Pedersen Cluff -- Loneliness of working-class feminism / Deborah Levenson-Estrada -- Morality and good habits / Thomas Miller Klubock -- Household patrones / Heidi Tinsman -- Oral history, identity formation, and working-class mobilization / John D. French and Daniel James
Series Title: Comparative and international working-class history
Responsibility: John D. French and Daniel James, editors.

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"Collection of well-researched articles effectively combines gender history and labor history and includes specialized studies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Guatemala. Each article is thoroughly footnoted, revealing broadly-based sources including interviews, memoirs, and government publications, as well as authors' extensive reading in comparable published studies and theoretical literature. Editors also contribute introductory and concluding essays rich in historiographical and methodological insights"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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