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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... , 1966–1985 30 Cost of Living in Selected Cities , 1988 MAPS 1 The Caribbean Area 2 Trinidad and Tobago 3 The Northwest Peninsula FIGURE 43 44 103 1 Layout of the EUL Factory 118 Acknowledgments THE FIELDWORK on which this book is based (
Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean Workplace Kevin Yelvington. Acknowledgments THE FIELDWORK on which this book is based ( 1986-87 ) was not funded by a grant or fellowship . Like the women workers I write about , I pieced ...
... fieldwork might not have been successful , and it certainly would not have been so pleasant . I would like to thank Roger and Aulrica McFarlane and their lovely family for treating me as one of their own . Thanks for the same reasons ...
... fieldwork undertaken from July 1986 to July 1987. It explores the social relations of the factory workers and traces how ethnicity , class , and gender permeate those relations . Using an approach that draws from a number of academic ...
... Fieldwork This book arises out of a doctoral thesis in social anthropology at the University of Sussex ( Yelvington 1990a ) . When I went to Trinidad I spent time looking for a suitable factory in which to carry out my fieldwork ...
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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 |