Title: Between field and cooking pot
First published: 1989
Description: This groundbreaking study documents the important, necessary role of marketwomen in Peru's capitalist economy. Babb focuses on the daily lives and work of the marketwomen and their strategies for combining their emergent productive and traditional reproductive roles. She also traces how the economic condition of these women and their families has declined over a 10 year period.
Subjects: Women merchants, Employment, Peddlers and peddling, Informal sector (Economics), Women, Handlerin, Secteur informel (Economie politique), Commercʹants ambulants, Markt, Colportage, Femmes, Colporteurs et colportage, Travail, Commercʹantes, Markthandel, Frau, Peddling, Women, peru
Places: Peru
LC classification: HD6072.6.P4