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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... Percentage of All Women Ever in a Union , According to Union History , by Ethnic Origin , Current Age , and Level of Education , 1977 ळळळ 84 84 85 92 93 16 Percentage of All Women Ever in a Union , According to Union Status , by ...
... Percentage 28 Workers ' Views on Participation , by Level of Occupation , 1979 107 108 114 115 137 181 203 204 204 209 219 Distribution , Trinidad and Tobago , 1966–1985 30 Cost of Living in Selected Cities , 1988 MAPS 1 The Caribbean ...
... percent of the line workers are women . Although the factory contrasts with the general trend in that it is locally owned , it owes its creation to the " industrialization - by - invitation " economic - development strategies devised by ...
... percent unemployment during the year I did fieldwork in ( 1986-87 ) . Many of the workers ' menfolk were among the ranks of the unemployed . The supervisors , all of whom are men , tend to explain their position as supervisors of an ...
... percent of the land was cultivated ( Sheridan 1985 : 8 ) and , on the eve of abolition , in 1833 only 1 percent of owners had more than one hundred slaves and 80 percent had fewer than ten ( Williams 1964 : 85 ) . But the system in ...
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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 |