Crossroads Of Class Research Articles

Choosing the Gorkha: at the crossroads of class and ethnicity in the Darjeeling hills

The Darjeeling hills in northern West Bengal, India are being demanded as a homeland for the Gorkha community living in India. While the origin of Darjeeling is steeped in the imperial legacy of the British Raj, the Gorkha, a colonial construct is ironically used as a means to challenge the contemporary political regression and neo-colonisation of Darjeeling. Although the Gorkha identity is deemed as representative of the Nepali community residing in India, it acquires special meaning and importance in the Darjeeling hills, where majority of the people suffer low wages, unemployment, underdevelopment and poverty. In spite of a large working force in the tea estates, economic underdevelopment and political disempowerment is voiced through the assertion of ethnic rather than a class-based identity. Through an examination of the interaction between class and ethnicity, the Gorkha identity will highlight the malleability of ethnicity to extend itself to any situation and the emergence of an ethnic identity from class relations and grievances.

Gender and Work in Turkey: Case Study on Women Workers in the Textile Industry in Bursa

Over the past 40 years or so historians and social scientists especially the women among them have made a determined attempt to render visible what was hitherto often invisible -- the role of women in history and the part they play in contemporary society. With respect to work this has led to increased interest in several related aspects -- in women and waged work; in the work constituted by the domestic duties that women perform within the home; and in so-called home work work performed in the home for money. The latter sort of work has often been investigated with reference to the production of garments. But the textile industry has been a common point of investigation in the attempt to render visible womens waged work roles and the interconnection between these and the work they do in the home. This study aims to contribute to contemporary debates about women and workplace attitudes in Turkey with special reference to women textile workers in Bursa. It draws upon fieldwork conducted in two big textile firms in 2001 in Bursa. (authors)

Book Reviews : Lourdes Benería and Martha I. Roldán The Crossroads of Class and Gender: Homework, Subcontracting, and Household Dynamics in Mexico City (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987) Fiona Wilson Sweaters: Gender, Class and Workshop-Based Industry in Mexico (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991

Book Reviews : Lourdes Benería and Martha I. Roldán The Crossroads of Class and Gender: Homework, Subcontracting, and Household Dynamics in Mexico City (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987) Fiona Wilson Sweaters: Gender, Class and Workshop-Based Industry in Mexico (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991

Boundaries of gender and class

Silverblatt, Irene. Moon, Sun, and Witches. Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. xxxiii + 266 pp. including bibliography and index. $39.50 cloth, $14.50 paper. Rubenstein, Roberta, ed. Boundaries of the Self: Gender, Culture, Fiction. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. ix + 256 pp. including bibliography and index. $24.95 cloth. Benería, Lourdes, and Martha Roldán. The Crossroads of Class and Gender: Industrial Homework, Subcontracting, and Household Dynamics in Mexico City, xii + 204 pp. including bibliography and index. $42.00 cloth, $15.95 paper.

The Crossroads of Class & Gender: Industrial Homework, Subcontracting, and Household Dynamics in Mexico City. By Lourdes Beneria and Martha Roldan. University of Chicago Press. 204 pp. Cloth, $42.00; paper, $15.95

The Crossroads of Class & Gender: Industrial Homework, Subcontracting, and Household Dynamics in Mexico City.By Lourdes Beneria and Martha Roldan. University of Chicago Press. 204 pp. Cloth, $42.00; paper, $15.95 Get access Jane C. Hood Jane C. Hood University of New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 68, Issue 3, March 1990, Pages 968–969, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/68.3.968 Published: 01 March 1990

The Crossroads of Class and Gender: Industrial Homework, Subcontracting, and Household Dynamics in Mexico City.

In this innovative exploration of the interaction between economic processes and social relations, Lourdes Beneria and Martha Roldan examine the effect of homework on gender and family dynamics. Their fieldwork in Mexico City during 1981-82 has enabled them to provide important new empirical data on industrial piecework performed by women as well as intimate glimpses of these women's lives which place that piecework in context. Tracing the stages of production from home to jobber, workshop, and manufacturer (often a multinational corporation), the authors demonstrate the way in which the work and lives of these women are connected through subcontracting to the national and often international system of production.

The Crossroads of Class and Gender:The Crossroads of Class and Gender: Industrial Homework, Subcontracting and Household

The Crossroads of Class and Gender:The Crossroads of Class and Gender: Industrial Homework, Subcontracting and Household

The Crossroads of Class and Gender

The Crossroads of Class and Gender: Industrial Homework, Subcontracting and Household Dynamics in Mexico City. Lourdes Beneria and Martha Roldan Women In Culture and Society Series. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. xll. 204 pp. $42.00 (cloth) ISBN 0‐226‐04231‐6; $15.95 (paper) ISBN 0‐226‐04232‐4.

The Crossroads of Class and Gender: Industrial Homework, Subcontracting, and Household Dynamics in Mexico City

The Crossroads of Class and Gender: Industrial Homework, Subcontracting, and Household Dynamics in Mexico City

Book Review: The Crossroads of Class & Gender: Industrial Homework, Subcontracting and Household Dynamics in Mexico City

Book Review: The Crossroads of Class & Gender: Industrial Homework, Subcontracting and Household Dynamics in Mexico City

The Crossroads of Class and Gender: Industrial Homework, Subcontracting, and Household Dynamics in Mexico City.

The Crossroads of Class and Gender: Industrial Homework, Subcontracting, and Household Dynamics in Mexico City.