Producing Power: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean WorkplaceTemple University Press, 2010年6月10日 - 304 頁 In a small, locally owned Trinidadian factory that produces household goods, 80 percent of the line workers are women, almost all black or East Indian. The supervisors are all men, either white or East Indian. Kevin Yelvington worked for a year in this factory to study how ethnicity and gender are integral elements of the class structure, a social and economic structure that permeates all relations between men and women in the factory. These primary divisions determine the way the production process is ordered and labor divided. Unlike women in other industries in "underdeveloped" parts of the world who are recruited by foreign firms, Caribbean women have always contributed to the local economy. Within this historical context, Yelvington outlines the development of the state, and addresses exploitation and domination in the labor process. Yelvington also documents the sexually charged interactions between workers and managers and explores how both use flirting and innuendo to their advantage. Weddings and other social events outside the factory provide insightful details about how the creation of social identities carries over to all aspects of the local culture. |
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... Chapter 1 , I outline my theoretical approach to the ethnography and develop my " resource theory of power , " which ... Chapter 2 contains a discussion of the history of women workers in Trinidad , the role of the state in promulgat ...
Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean Workplace Kevin Yelvington. Chapter 1 ETHNICITY , GENDER , CLASS , AND THE POLITICS OF POWER There are many ways of looking at the world , there are many ways of exploring reality . Anybody who ...
... also mean " producing power , " in the sense that power is derived from the formal economic process of producing commodities , where acquiring and wielding control of the production process provides a means of 12 CHAPTER 1.
... chapter , one tug - of - war is over production . The theme is familiar — owners and management try to increase employee output , which workers resist . In Marxian terms , this represents the attempt by the capitalist to increase the ...
... , there are struggles over the meanings of the factory contents ; that is , the content of the identities of the owners , supervisors , and workers , where , in a dialectial process , these definitions create and enable 18 CHAPTER 1.
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A Trinidadian Factory | 99 |
4 Ethnicity at Work | 130 |
5 Gender at Work | 156 |
6 Class at Work | 186 |
Conclusion | 231 |
The EUL Supervisors and Line Workers | 243 |
Notes | 246 |
References | 257 |
Index | 278 |