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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.
Bringing together the leading authors currently working at the
intersection of social science and transport science, this volume
provides a companion to the well-established and extensive
international Transport and Society series. Each chapter, and the
volume as a whole, offers closer and richer consideration of the
issues, practices and structures of multiple mobilities which shape
the current world but which have typically been overlooked or
minimised. What this approach seeks to do is not only draw
attention to many new areas of research and investigation relating
to mobile lives, but also to point to new theories and methods by
which such lives have to be researched and examined. Such new
theories and methods are relevant both to rethinking 'transport'
studies as such but are also recasting 'societal' studies as
'transport' so that it comes out of the ghetto and enters
mainstream social science.
First published in 1998, this volume collates essays from the
perspectives of African women, this volume presents us with
equality and access rights faced by African women. Whilst
discussing the potential of harnessing advances in information and
communication technology to support the participation and
recognition of women in development policies in Africa.
First published in 1998, this volume collates essays from the
perspectives of African women, this volume presents us with
equality and access rights faced by African women. Whilst
discussing the potential of harnessing advances in information and
communication technology to support the participation and
recognition of women in development policies in Africa.
Bringing together the leading authors currently working at the
intersection of social science and transport science, this volume
provides a companion to the well-established and extensive
international Transport and Society series. Each chapter, and the
volume as a whole, offers closer and richer consideration of the
issues, practices and structures of multiple mobilities which shape
the current world but which have typically been overlooked or
minimised. What this approach seeks to do is not only draw
attention to many new areas of research and investigation relating
to mobile lives, but also to point to new theories and methods by
which such lives have to be researched and examined. Such new
theories and methods are relevant both to rethinking 'transport'
studies as such but are also recasting 'societal' studies as
'transport' so that it comes out of the ghetto and enters
mainstream social science.
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