Social anthropology of work
by Wallman, Sandra, A.S.A. Conference, University of York)
fromASA monographs
This book uses a socio-historical approach with feminist insight to examine the work of Chinese women in colonial Malaya, specifically those who worked as prostitutes, mui tsai, domestic servants, tin and rubber workers, hawkers and construction workers. The study questions the …
"This important book by a major historian is the first to study how the problem of people out of work has been understood and dealt with in the Western world. Garraty discusses the ambivalent attitudes that people have always had toward work and how attitudes and perceptions hav…
A discussion of the development of gender identity in women that includes an examination of the role of women in countries including Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Mexico and China. The book considers male bias to women and women in work.
