Muchachas No More

Muchachas No More
Author: Elsa Chaney
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 508
Release: 1989
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780877228356

Offers a look at the sizeable population of women who are domestic workers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Meanings of Macho

The Meanings of Macho
Author: Matthew C. Gutmann
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2006-09-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780520250130

Praise for the first edition: "Gutmann has done the hithertofore seemingly unthinkable. [A] wholly other vision of Mexican gender relations emerges."—José Limón, American Anthropologist "This book does for the study of men what two generations of feminist anthropologists have done for the study of women."—Lynn Stephen, author of Zapotec Women

Women, Men, and the International Division of Labor

Women, Men, and the International Division of Labor
Author: June C. Nash
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1984-06-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 143841417X

The last few decades have witnessed a growing integration of the world system of production on the basis of a new relationship between less developed and highly industrialized countries. The effect is a geographical dispersion of the various production stages in the manufacturing process as the large corporations of industrialized "First World" countries are attracted by low labor costs, taxes, and relaxed production restrictions available in developing countries. This collection of papers focuses on inequalities among different sectors of the labor force, particularly those related to gender, and how these are affected by the changing international division of labor.

Gender, Household, State

Gender, Household, State
Author: Jayne Werner
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2018-05-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1501719459

A collection of essays addressing the state of women's lives in Viet Nam during doi moi, the period of economic market reforms that characterized the nation in the 1990s. These fascinating and varied essays illuminate women's daily lives as they are shaped by culture, economics, and traditional ideals.

Meeting the Challenges of Megacities in the Developing World

Meeting the Challenges of Megacities in the Developing World
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1998-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780309055383

Cities in developing countries are experiencing unprecedented population growth, which is exacerbating their problems in providing shelter and basic services. This volume draws on advances in technologies and management strategies made in recent decades to suggest ways to improve urban life and services. Four challenges to developing countries' megacities are addressed: labor markets, housing, water and sanitation, and transportation, along with a synthesis of general thinking on how to meet megacity challenges and be competitive in the twenty-first century.

The Making of Citizens

The Making of Citizens
Author: Bryan Roberts
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2020-11-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1000161498

Originally published as 'Cities of Peasants', this highly-acclaimed account of the expansion of capitalism in the developing world has now been extensively rewritten and updated. Focusing on Latin America, Bryan Roberts traces the evolution of developing societies and their economies to the present. Taking account of the move towards more 'open' economies, a shrinking of the state and various transitions towards democracies, he shows how urban growth has produced new patterns of social stratification, creating opportunities for social mobility, but doing little to decrease income inequality or political and social pressures. Underlying social changes have broadened the practice of citizenship in developing countries, limiting authoritarian rule but within a context of entrenched social inequalities and persisting political instability. This book conveys both the flavour of life in the cities of the third world and the immediacy of their problems.

International Responses to Gendered-Based Domestic Violence

International Responses to Gendered-Based Domestic Violence
Author: Dongling Zhang
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2023-03-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000847667

This edited volume represents a joint effort by international experts to analyze the prevalence and nature of gender-based domestic violence across the globe and how it is dealt with at both national and international levels. With studies being conducted in 20 different countries and 4 distinct regions, the contributors to this volume shed light on the ways in which contextual particularities shape the practices and strategies of addressing the socio-cultural and legal problem of gender-based domestic violence in the countries or regions where they do research. Special attention is devoted to developing countries where there is a lack of a consistent legal definition of gender-based domestic violence and where violence against women is widely considered a private matter. The authors of the chapters share a common goal of raising public awareness of the significance in nuanced local experiences of women and other individuals from gender and sexual minority groups facing gender-based violence. Furthermore, the authors attend, analytically, to the newly emerging, overlapping influences of COVID-19 and global warming. Their research findings acknowledge and provide a detailed account of how the two ecological and socio-economic crises can combine to produce economic devastation, disconnect victims from necessary social services and assistance, and create a large degree of panic and uncertainty. In addition, they intend to offer insights into next steps to not only adjust existing public policies, legislation, and social services to the ever-changing national and global contexts, but also to make new ones. The book is intended for a wide range of scholars (both professors and students) and practitioners in a large number of areas, including but not limited to criminal justice, criminology, law, human rights, social justice, social work, nursing, sociology, and political or public affairs.

Metropolitan Migrants

Metropolitan Migrants
Author: Rubén Hernández-León
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2008-09-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780520942462

Challenging many common perceptions, this is the first book fully dedicated to understanding a major new phenomenon—the large numbers of skilled urban workers who are now coming across the border from Mexico's cities. Based on a ten-year, on-the-ground study of one working-class neighborhood in Monterrey, Mexico's industrial powerhouse and third-largest city, Metropolitan Migrants explores the ways in which Mexico's economic restructuring and the industrial modernization of the past three decades have pushed a new flow of migrants toward cities such as Houston, Texas, the global capital of the oil industry. Weaving together rich details of everyday life with a lucid analysis of Mexico's political economy, Rubén Hernández-León deftly traces the effects of restructuring on the lives of the working class, from the national level to the kitchen table.

Contrapunto

Contrapunto
Author: Cathy A. Rakowski
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1994-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1438416792

The informal sector denotes the small-scale, unprotected, and loosely regulated activities and self-employment that proliferate in developing countries. This book is about the people who engage in informal activities and the people who study, interpret, intervene in, promote, or attempt to repress or regulate the sector. The authors bring together and evaluate for the first time competing theories, policies, and research findings on the informal sector, dealing with issues of power, ideology, and politics; basic research, applied research, program evaluation, and policymaking; exploitation, entrepreneurship, and opportunity; and poverty and the accumulation of wealth.