Producing power
Subtitle: ethnicity, gender, and class in a Caribbean workplace
By: Kevin A. Yelvington.
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Power (Social sciences) -- Trinidad and Tobago.; Women -- Employment -- Trinidad and Tobago.; Ethnicity -- Trinidad and Tobago.; Working class -- Trinidad and Tobago.
Description: "Highly detailed and well-argued study focuses on mostly women workers in a Trinidadian factory. Utilizes approach which author claims unites history, culture, structure, and agency. In fact, coherent and theoretically sophisticated analytical framework provides context for the ethnographically rich, multi-dimensional narratives of women workers 'who endure oppression while at the same time reclaiming their dignity.' Core argument is that the production process 'becomes a site where the meanings of ethnicity, class, and gender are constructed, contested, and consented to.'"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-277) and index.