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Michael Perelman wrote: >Yoshie, I was looking at my notes and I found: > >Humphries, Jane. 1991. "The Sexual Division of Labor and Social Control: An >Interpretation." Review of Radical Political Economics, 23: 3 and 4 (Fall and >Winter): pp. 269-96. >277: The need to monitor female sexual behav

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> Feminist contributions to labor history tell us that the first wage > laborers at the beginning of the "industrial revolution" in the most > crucial industry were often predominantly female, not male, textile > workers. (Even mining was not the all male or predominantly male > industry eith

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> Ong, Aihwa. 1987. _Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: > Factory Women in Malaysia._ SUNY Press. > Ong also provides an impressive analysis of the > political/cultural stresses that the presence of a large number of yound > women workers produces in Malaysia > Best, Colin See also

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Thanks, Yoshie, for your posts, including this one: Gene Coyle Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Jim Heartfield wrote: > > >In message , Yoshie Furuhashi > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > > >Typical faces of industrial workers changed from female & colored to > > >

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Jim Heartfield wrote: >In message , Yoshie Furuhashi ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >Typical faces of industrial workers changed from female & colored to > >male & white to female & colored. The prevalence of the nuclear > >family idealized by conservatives

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Michael Perelman wrote: >Yoshie, I knew that a good many of the early workers in textiles were >women, but mining, comes as a surprise. * ...For example, in Japan women's work in the coal mines was affected by recession after World War I, when more women became redundant than men. Protect

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Great post. 2 booknotes. John D. French Daniel James eds. 1997. _The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers_ Duke University Press has wonderful articles by historians along these lines, several showing the extent to which governments were involved in creating and enforcing the male-b

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Yoshie, I knew that a good many of the early workers in textiles were women, but mining, comes as a surprise. Were women miners common in Europe? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901