Assembling Flowers and Cultivating Homes: Labor and Gender in Colombia

By Greta Friedemann-Sánchez

Book Overview

This ethnographic study explores the links between agro-industrial employment in the context of economic adjustment programs and the individual experience of employment and economic change at the household level. Author Greta Friedemann-S aacute;nchez's challenges the current academic consensus that transnational assembly line industries reinforce patriarchal ideologies of reproduction and the exploitation of women.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739132962
• ISBN13: 9780739132968
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"