Sunbelt Working Mothers

Name: Sunbelt Working Mothers
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Reconciling Family and Factory

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The anthropology of contemporary issues

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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.

Author Biography:

Louise Lamphere is Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. Patricia Zavella is Associate Professor on the Community Studies Board at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Felipe Gonzales is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico. Peter B. Evans is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Release date NZ

May 20th, 1993

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General (US: Trade)

Contributor

With Peter B. Evans

Pages

352

Series

The anthropology of contemporary issues

Dimensions

152x229x24

ISBN-13

9780801480669

Product ID

3724134

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