Factory Daughters - Gender, Household Dynamics and Rural Industrialization in Java

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolf, Diane L., Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] University of California Press 1994

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Taking the reader inside the households where Javanese women live and the factories where they work, Diane Wolf reveals the contradictions, constraints, and changes in their lives. She debunks conventional wisdom about the patriarchal family, while at the same time clearly identifying the complex dynamics of class, gender, agrarian change, and industrialization in the Third World.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Conceptualizing Poor Women, Household Dynamics, and Industrialization

2. Industrial and Agrarian Change in Java

3. Javanese Women and the Family

4. The Villages

5. The Factories

6. Life in a Spinning Mill

7. Determinants of Factory Employment

8. Factory Daughters and the Family Economy

9. Marriage

10. The Family Economy Revisited: Daughters, Work, and the Life Cycle

Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

Glossary of Indonesian and Javanese Words

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-520-91504-6

0-585-03288-2

OCLC:

1419788541