A01=Lourdes Beneria
A01=Martha Roldan
Author_Lourdes Beneria
Author_Martha Roldan
Category=JBSF1
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Product details
- ISBN 9780226042329
- Weight: 312g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 1987
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this innovative exploration of the interaction between economic processes and social relations, Lourdes Benería and Martha Roldán examine the effect of homework on gender and family dynamics. Their fieldwork in Mexico City during 1981-82 has enabled them to provide important new empirical data on industrial piecework performed by women as well as intimate glimpses of these women's lives which place that piecework in context. Tracing the stages of production from home to jobber, workshop, and manufacturer (often a multinational corporation), the authors demonstrate the way in which the work and lives of these women are connected through subcontracting to the national and often international system of production.
