Assembling Flowers and Cultivating Homes: Labor and Gender in Colombia

This ethnographic study explores the links between agro-industrial employment in the context of economic adjustment programs and the individual experience of employment and economic change at the household level. Author Greta Friedemann-Sáaacute;nchez's challenges the current academic consensus that transnational assembly line industries reinforce patriarchal ideologies of reproduction and the exploitation of women.

• | Author: Greta Friedemann-Sánchez
• | Publisher: Lexington Books
• | Publication Date: Dec 01, 2008
• | Number of Pages: 230 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0739132962
• | ISBN-13: 9780739132968