Subsidizing capitalism : brickmakers on the U.S.-Mexican border / Tamar Diana Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Tamar Diana, 1943-

Series:

SUNY series in the anthropology of work.

SUNY series in the anthropology of work

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brickmakers--Mexico--Mexicali--Social conditions.

Brickmakers.

Brickmakers--Mexico--Mexicali.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examines the economic activities of self-employed brickmakers and the unpaid family members and others who assist them in Mexico.

Contents:

"The ladrillera"

Approaches to the "informal sector" and to the brickmakers of Mexicali

Petty commodity producers in the informal sector : the peasant adaptation of the brickmakers in Colonia Popular, Mexicali

"The old brickmaker, 1993"

"Invisible" women and children workers on the Mexicali brickyards

"Mexicali brickmaker's wife"

Gender considerations among the brickmakers

"Brickmaker's daughter, brickmaker's wife"

The heterogeneity of subsidies to the capitalist system : the case of the garbage pickers

Are the brickmakers counterhegemonic?

"Don Rafael's desire".

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-204) and index.

ISBN:

9780791482995

0791482995

9781423748762

142374876X

OCLC:

461442730