Sunbelt working mothers : reconciling family and factory /

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Author / Creator:	Lamphere, Louise.
Imprint:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1993.
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 330 pages) : illustrations, map
Language:	English
Series:	Anthropology of contemporary issues Cornell paperbacks Anthropology of contemporary issues.
Subject:	Working mothers -- Sunbelt States. Work and family -- Sunbelt States. Work and family. Working mothers. United States -- Sunbelt States. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11704581

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Other authors / contributors:	Zavella, Patricia. Gonzales, Felipe, 1946- Evans, Peter B., 1944-
ISBN:	9781501724503 1501724509 0801427886 9780801427886 0801480663 9780801480669
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-321) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Lamphere, Louise. Sunbelt working mothers. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1993

Table of Contents:

1. Mediating Contradiction and Difference: The Everyday Construction of Work and Family
2. The Context of Sunbelt Industrialization
3. Women's Industrial Work in the Family Economy
4. Mediating Contracdictions in Hierarchical Plants
5. Management Ideology and Practice in Participative Plants
6. Strategies for the Household Division of Labor
7. Strategies for Day Care while Mothers Work
8. Kin, Friends, and Husbands: Support Networks for Working Mothers
9. Conclusion: Living with Contradictions
Appendix: Mother's Providing Role, Occupation, Income, and Household Division of Labor.

Sunbelt working mothers : reconciling family and factory /

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