Producing Power
"Highly detailed and well-argued study focuses on mostly women workers in a Trinidadian factory. Utilizes approach which author claims unites history, culture, structure, and agency. In fact, coherent and theoretically sophisticated analytical framework provides context for the ethnographically rich, multi-dimensional narratives of women workers 'who endure oppression while at the same time reclaiming their dignity.' Core argument is that the production process 'becomes a site where the meaning…
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- Full title :Producing Power / Kevin A. Yelvington.
Summary
"Highly detailed and well-argued study focuses on mostly women workers in a Trinidadian factory. Utilizes approach which author claims unites history, culture, structure, and agency. In fact, coherent and theoretically sophisticated analytical framework provides context for the ethnographically rich, multi-dimensional narratives of women workers 'who endure oppression while at the same time reclaiming their dignity.' Core argument is that the production process 'becomes a site where the meanings of ethnicity, class, and gender are constructed, contested, and consented to.'"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
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- Publication Date:1995.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Temple University Press
- Place of Publication:Philadelphia
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1995.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xv, 286 p. :) : ill., maps
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781439904459, 1439904456
- oclc:on1348241285
- LC Classification:HN246.Z9
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