Hutchison / Levenson / Silverblatt Labors Appropriate to Their Sex

Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900–1930
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8131-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

Reihe: Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

The first systematic account of Chilean women's labor from 1885 to 1930 showing how women's paid labor became a locus of anxiety for a society confronting social problems linked to modernization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hutchison, Elizabeth Quay

Levenson, Deborah T.

Silverblatt, Irene

Saldívar-Hull, Sonia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Gewerkschaften, Industrielle Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. Working-Class Life and Politics

1. Gender, Industrialization, and Urban Change in Santiago

2. Women at Work in Santiago

3. “To Work Like Men and Not Cry Like Women”: The Problem of Women in Male Workers’ Politics

4. Somos Todos Obreras! Socialists and Working-Class Feminism

II. Women Workers and the Social Question

5. Women’s Vocational Training: The Female Face of Industrialization

6. Senoras y Senoritas; Catholic Women Defend the Hijas de Familia

7. Women, Work, and Motherhood: Gender and Legislative Consensus
Conclusion: Women, Work, and Historical Change

Conclusion: Women, Work, and Historical Change

Appendices

Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Quay Hutchison is Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Mexico.