Labors appropriate to their sex : gender, labor, and politics in urban Chile, 1900-1930 / Elizabeth Quay hutchison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hutchison, Elizabeth Q. (Elizabeth Quay)

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Latin America otherwise.

Latin America otherwise

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Employment--Chile--History--20th century.

Women.

Industrialization--Chile.

Industrialization.

Labor movement--Chile--History.

Labor movement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first systematic account of Chilean women's labor from 1885 to 1930 showing how women's paid labor became a locus of anxiety for a society confronting social problems linked to modernization.

Contents:

[pt.] 1. Working-class life and politics

1. Gender, industrialization, and urban change in Santiago

2. Women at work in Santiago

3. "To work like men and not cry like women" : the problem of women in male workers' politics

4. Somos todas obreras! : socialists and working-class feminism

[pt.] 2. Women workers and the social question

5. Women's vocational training : the female face of industrialization

6. Senoras y senoritas : Catholic women defend the hijas de familia

7. Women, work, and motherhood : gender and legislative consensus

Conclusion : women, work, and historical change.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-338) and index.

ISBN:

9786613062208

9781283062206

1283062208

9780822381310

0822381311

OCLC:

220951106