Bitter Choices

Name: Bitter Choices
Brand: University of Chicago Press
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Blue-collar Women in and Out of Work

Szerző: Ellen Israel Rosen

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: University of Chicago Press

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Ellen Israel Rosen presents a compelling portrait of married women who work on New England's assembl...

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Ellen Israel Rosen

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

1990

oldal

230

EAN

9780226726458

Enbook ID

04548876

Kiadó

University of Chicago Press

Súly

339

Méretek

154 x 230 x 14

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Ellen Israel Rosen presents a compelling portrait of married women who work on New England's assembly lines while they also maintain their homes and marriages. With skill and sympathy, she documents the reasons these women work; their experiences on the job, in the union, and at home; the sources of their job satisfaction; and their management of the double day. The major issue for this segment of the labor force, Rosen suggests, is not whether to work, but the availability and quality of jobs. Rosen argues that deindustrialization--plant closings and job displacement--confronts blue-collar women factory workers with a bitter choice between work at lower and lower wages or no work at all. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data from interviews with more than two hundred such women factory workers, Rosen traces the ways in which women who do unskilled factory work have gained in self-esteem as well as financial stability from holding paid jobs. Throughout, Rosen explores the relationship between public work experiences and private family life. She analyzes the dynamics of two-paycheck, working class families, clarifies relationships between class and gender, and explores the impact of patriarchy and capitalism on working class women. At the same time Rosen places women's job loss within the broader economic context of global industrial transformations, demonstrating how international capital shifts to cheaper labor in developing countries, as well as technological progress, are changing the shape of the entire American labor force and are beginning to undermine the material and symbolic gains of the American female factory worker, the promise of market equality, and progressive working conditions. This book is a significant contribution to our understanding of women's work and family lives, but it is also a valuable look at the consequences of deindustrialization in America for workers, their families, and their communities.--Myra Marx Ferree, American Journal of Sociology

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Blue-collar Women in and Out of Work

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