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Assembling Flowers and Cultivating Homes - Labor and Gender in Colombia (Paperback)
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Assembling Flowers and Cultivating Homes - Labor and Gender in Colombia (Paperback)
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Colombia is a major exporter of fresh-cut flowers. As in other
global assembly line industries, women constitute a majority of
Colombia's floriculture workforce. 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-Sanchez's challenges the current academic consensus that
transnational assembly line industries reinforce patriarchal
ideologies of reproduction and the exploitation of women. What from
a global perspective may be perceived as exploitation can be seen
from the local perspective as an opportunity within the community.
Specifically, the study focuses on how the interrelated factors of
formal employment, wage income, property ownership, social capital,
and self-esteem articulate with women's resistance to male
dominated households and domestic violence. Expertly combining
qualitative and quantitative methodologies, Assembling Flowers and
Cultivating Homes contributes greatly to the study of gender and
power, household economics and structure, and Latin American
society.
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