Enterprising women : ethnicity, economy, and gender relations / edited by Sallie Westwood and Parminder Bhachu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Westwood, Sallie.

Bhachu, Parminder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minority women--Employment--Great Britain.

Minority women.

Women-owned business enterprises--Great Britain.

Women-owned business enterprises.

Work and family--Great Britain.

Work and family.

Minority women--Employment.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

x, 210 pages : 1 illustration ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1988.

Contents:

Entrepreneurship, ethnicity, and gender / Annie Phizacklea

Honour, family, and work : Greek Cypriot women before and after migration / Sasha Josephides

Fast food, fettered work : Chinese women in the ethnic catering industry / Sue Baxter and Geoff Raw

Apni Marzi Kardhi, home and work : Sikh women in Britain / Parminder Bhachu

Workers and wives : continuities and discontinuities in the lives of Gujarati women / Sallie Westwood

Marriage, maternity, and female economic activity : Gujarati mothers in Britain / Shrikala Warrier

Narrow definitions of culture : the case of early motherhood / Ann Phoenix

Taking and giving : working women and female bonds in a Pakistani immigrant neighbourhood / Phina Werbner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

ISBN:

0415006864

0415006872

OCLC:

17227688