Sunbelt Working Mothers Contributor(s): Lamphere, Louise (Author), Zavella, Patricia (Author), Gonzales, Felipe (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801480663 ISBN-13: 9780801480669 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $44.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1993 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Social Science | Sociology - Marriage & Family - Social Science | Women's Studies |
Dewey: 306.87 |
LCCN: 92056789 |
Lexile Measure: 1290 |
Series: Anthropology of Contemporary Issues (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.20 lbs) 352 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lamphere, Louise: - Louise Lamphere is Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico.Zavella, Patricia: - 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.Evans, Peter B.: - 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.Gonzales, Felipe: - Felipe Gonzales is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico. |