Labors Appropriate to Their Sex

Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900–1930

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Elizabeth Quay Hutchison

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In Labors Appropriate to Their Sex Elizabeth Quay Hutchison addresses the plight of working women in early-twentieth-century Chile, when the growth of urban manufacturing was transforming the contours of women's wage work and stimulating significant public debate, new legislation, educational reform, and social movements directed at women workers. Challenging earlier interpretations of women's economic role in Chile's industrial growth, which took at face value census figures showing a dramatic decline in women's industrial work after 1907, Hutchison shows that their employment instead had shifted to informal or unofficial realms, such as sweatshops, making female labour disappear from census records at the same time that it was in fact burgeoning in urban areas. In addition to population and industrial censuses Hutchison culls published and archival sources to illuminate such misconceptions and to reveal how women's paid labour became a locus of anxiety for a society confronting social problems-both real and imagined-that were linked to industrialisation and modernisation. The limited options of working women were viewed by politicians, elite women, industrialists, and labour organisers as indicative of a society in crisis, she claims, yet their struggles were also viewed as the potential springboard for reform. Labors Appropriate to Their Sex thus demonstrates how changing norms concerning gender and work were central factors in conditioning the behaviour of both male and female workers, relations between capital and labour, and public sentiment. This study will be rewarding for those whose interests lie in labour, gender, or Latin American studies; as well as for those concerned with the histories of early feminism, working-class women, and sexual discrimination in Latin America.

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Elizabeth Quay Hutchison is Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Mexico.

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November 15th, 2001

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Elizabeth Quay Hutchison

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Professional & Vocational

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20 photographs, 22 tables, 2 maps

Pages

360

Series

Latin America Otherwise

Dimensions

152x228x25

ISBN-13

9780822327424

Product ID

7567113

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