From Working Daughters to Working Mothers: Immigrant Women in a New England Industrial Community

Lamphere, Louise

Business & Money

Cornell Univ Pr

Sunbelt Working Mothers: Reconciling Family and Factory (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues)

The recession of the 1980s triggered important economic and cultural changes in the United States, and working women were at the center of these changes. Sunbelt Working Mothers compares the experiences of Mexican–American and white mothers employed in apparel and electronics factories in Albuquerque and illuminates the ways in which individual women manage the competing demands of two roles. Authors Lamphere, Zavella, Gonzales, and Evans show how these mothers-without the economic resources of highly paid professional women-find day care, divide economic contributions and household responsibilities with spouses or roommates, and obtain emotional support from kin or friends.
After an overview of the recent industrialization of the Sunbelt economy, the authors consider how new participative management techniques have given greater flexibility to some women's work lives. Drawing on interviews with married couples and single mothers, they offer an engaging account of representative women's home lives, and conclude that working families are changing. This timely book will be welcomed by students and scholars in the fields of anthropology, sociology, labor studies, women's studies, and social history.

Zavella, Patricia

Gonzales, Felipe

Economics

Cornell University Press

The recession of the 1980s triggered important economic and cultural changes in the United States, and working women were at the center of these changes. Sunbelt Working Mothers compares the experiences of Mexican–American and white mothers employed in apparel and electronics factories in Albuquerque and illuminates the ways in which individual women manage the competing demands of two roles. Authors Lamphere, Zavella, Gonzales, and Evans show how these mothers-without the economic resources of highly paid professional women-find day care, divide economic contributions and household responsibilities with spouses or roommates, and obtain emotional support from kin or friends.After an overview of the recent industrialization of the Sunbelt economy, the authors consider how new participative management techniques have given greater flexibility to some women's work lives. Drawing on interviews with married couples and single mothers, they offer an engaging account of representative women's home lives, and conclude that working families are changing. This timely book will be welcomed by students and scholars in the fields of anthropology, sociology, labor studies, women's studies, and social history.

Since World War II, an important transformation has occurred in American society as wives and others have increasingly taken jobs outside the home. American women has always worked, however - first almost solely in the home and later also as wage earners outside the home. Anthropologist Louise Lamphere here provides an analysis of both kinds of work and shows how they have been interconnected in the lives of women in the industrial community of Central Falls, Rhode Island.   'From Working Daughters to Working Mothers' offers a dynamic picture of working-class women, one that sees them not as passive victims but as active agents who draw upon a range of strategies and behaviors both to deal with their employment and to help their families cope with the industrial order. The book will be engaging reading for anthropologists, social and labor historians, sociologists, political economists, and students of women's studies.   Illustrated with black-and-white photographs; maps; tables; and figures.   Includes Bibliography, Appendices, and Index.

Industries

Ithaca: Cornell University Press(1987)

To Run After Them: Cultural and Social Bases of Cooperation in a Navajo Community

Focuses on organization of economic and ritual activities, providing a view of Navajo social life without emphasizing matrilineality.  Examines the cultural system; social structure cooperative acitvities; ceremonial participation in the extended family; and new perspectives on Navajo studies.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

University of Arizona Press

Focuses on organization of economic and ritual activities, providing a view of Navajo social life without emphasizing matrilineality. Examines the cultural system; social structure cooperative acitvities; ceremonial participation in the extended family; and new perspectives on Navajo studies.

Louise Lamphere met Eva Price in 1965 in Sheep Springs, New Mexico, on the eastern side of the Navajo Reservation, while Lamphere was doing fieldwork for her dissertation in social anthropology at Harvard University. Over the next forty years, Lamphere developed a strong friendship with Price that expanded to include Eva's daughter, Carole Cadman, and granddaughter, Valerie Darwin.
When Price expressed her desire to pass along her teachings about Navajo life to her children and grandchildren, Lamphere saw an opportunity to pursue her own interest in writing a book on Navajo women that would encompass their transformative experiences through the twentieth century. Lamphere collaborated with Price, Cadman, and Darwin to create a narrative that highlights the voices of three generations of Navajo women, placing them within the context of the larger American society rather than presenting the Navajo as an isolated indigenous culture. Emphasizing the vibrancy and strength of Navajo culture, Weaving Women's Lives illustrates the process of incorporating new practices and ideas while retaining distinctive Navajo beliefs, values, and orientations. As individual threads are woven to create a unique pattern, so have Navajo women pulled together elements of Navajo and Anglo culture to create a new blueprint for their lives.

Weaving Women's Lives: Three Generations in a Navajo Family

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

University of New Mexico Press

Newcomers in the Workplace documents and dramatizes the changing face of the American workplace, transformed in the 1980s by immigrant workers in all sectors. This collection of excellent ethnographies captures the stench of meatpacking plants, the clatter of sewing machines, the sweat of construction sites, and the strain of management-employee relations in hotels and grocery stores as immigrant workers carve out crucial roles in a struggling economy.
 Case studies focus on three geographical regions―Philadelphia, Miami, and Garden City, Kansas―where the active workforce includes increasing numbers of Cubans, Haitians, Koreans, Puerto Ricans, Laotians, Vietnamese, and other new immigrants. The portraits show these newcomers reaching across ethnic boundaries in their determination to retain individualism and to insure their economic survival. In the series Labor and Social Change, edited by Paula Rayman and Carmen Sirianni.

Newcomers in the Workplace: Immigrants and the Restructing of the U.S. Economy (Labor And Social Change)

Business Culture

Temple University Press

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From Working Daughters to Working Mothers: Immigrant Women in a New England Industrial Community

Sunbelt Working Mothers: Reconciling Family and Factory (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues)

Sunbelt Working Mothers: Reconciling Family and Factory (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues)

From Working Daughters to Working Mothers: Immigrant Women in a New England Industrial Community

To Run After Them: Cultural and Social Bases of Cooperation in a Navajo Community

To Run After Them: Cultural and Social Bases of Cooperation in a Navajo Community

Weaving Women's Lives: Three Generations in a Navajo Family

Newcomers in the Workplace: Immigrants and the Restructing of the U.S. Economy (Labor And Social Change)