Women's work :development and the division of labor by gender /[edited by] Eleanor Leacock, Helen I. Safa & contributors.
Description
Introduction /Mar{acute}ia Patricia Fern{acute}andez Kelley --Part I. The gender division of labor and the stages of industrial capitalism --The Industrial Revolution and the European family ; "childhood" as a market for family labor /Wanda Minge --Paths of proletarianization : organization of production, sexual division of labor, and women's collective action /Louise A. Tilly --Uneven development : class, race, and gender in the United States before 1900 /Leith Mullings --Runaway shops and female employment : the search for cheap labor /Helen I. Safa --Part II. Reproduction and production in nonindustrial societies --Central Australian Aboriginal women's love rituals /Diane Bell --Forgotten wealth : cloth and women's production in the Pacific /Annette B. Weiner --Mamasani women : changes in the division of labor among a sedentarized pastoral people of Iran /Soheila Shashahani --Changing modes of production and the sexual division of labor among the Yoruba /Simi Afonja --Part III. Women and development in Third-World and socialist societies --Accumulation, reproduction, and women's role in economic development : Boserup revisited /Lourdes Bener{acute}ia and Gita Sen --Capitalist development, family division of labor, and migration in the Middle East /Mona Hammam --Women workers in the strawberry agribusiness in Mexico /Lourdes Arizpe and Josefina Aranda --The articulation of gender and class in the Philippines /Elizabeth U. Eviota --Planned development, social stratification, and the sexual division of labor in Singapore /Aline K. Wong --Rural production and reproduction : socialist development experiences /Elisabeth J. Croll --Postscript : implications for organization /Eleanor Leacock.
xi, 300 pages :illustrations ;24 cm
Book Details
Place Published
City
South Hadley, MA
Date Published
1986
Publication Subjects
Sexual division of labor--Congresses.
Women--Employment--Congresses.
Women in rural development--Congresses.