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Workers' Dilemmas - Recruitment, Reliability and Repeated Exchange: An Analysis of Urban Social Networks and Labour Circulation (Hardcover)
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Workers' Dilemmas - Recruitment, Reliability and Repeated Exchange: An Analysis of Urban Social Networks and Labour Circulation (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women and Work
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Originally published in 1996, Workers' Dilemmas analyses the
management skills of those with least resources, the women of the
urban poor, and finds that there is an abundance of evidence on the
high levels of managerial competence within this group. It is
information which has largely been hidden from history. This study
of poor women's involvement in the world of work corrects this
missing record. For over a century (1850-1960s), women and children
travelled from their urban homes in the East End of London to work
in the hop picking fields of Kent and Hampshire. The scale of the
annual migration and the complexity of neighbourhood and household
organization it required to provide this volume of labour have
escaped the literature. Drawing on a variety of historical records
and on oral history, this book explores the high level of
management and occupational skills possessed by the urban poor in
their construction of household survival strategies. Above all this
book highlights the key entrepreneurial role played by women in
this labour market and the importance of the financial support
provided by this regular seasonal labour for household survival.
Workers' Dilemmas provides a fresh look at how work patterns,
family structure and community networks interrelate and in the
process challenges accepted ideas in the wider fields of
anthropology and the sociology of work.
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