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Divisions and Solidarities - Gender, Class and Employment in Latin America (Hardcover)
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Divisions and Solidarities - Gender, Class and Employment in Latin America (Hardcover)
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Is class analysis obsolete or misguided? In "Divisions and
Solidarities", Alison MacEwen Scott defends the concept of class by
expanding it to encompass power, status, mobility and consumption.
She does this through a critique of theories of urban employment
and class structure, using case study material from Peru to examine
and test theories of interest to social scientists. The book
stresses the importance of class and gender in analyzing the
situation of the urban poor in Latin America. The author argues
that gender is deeply embedded in the "labouring class", not only
via gender segregation at work but through the role of the family
in forging solidarity across internal class division. She believes
that in the past class analysis has placed too much emphasis on
labour market divisions and not enough on broader solidarities
created by mobility, consumption patterns and kinship. In fact,
Scott shows that gender is an important dimension of inequality,
strongly linked to class, and that class cannot be understood
without reference to gender and the family.
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