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Ellen Israel Rosen presents a compelling portrait of married women who work on New England's assembly lines while they also maintain their homes and marriages. With skill and sympathy, she documents the reasons these women work; their experiences on the job, in the union, and at home; the sources of their job satisfaction; and their management of the "double day." The major issue for this segment of the labor force, Rosen suggests, is not whether to work, but the availability and quality of jobs. Rosen argues that deindustrialization—plant closings and job displacement—confronts blue-collar women factory workers with a "bitter choice" between work at lower and lower wages or no work at all.
Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data from interviews with more than two hundred such women factory workers, Rosen traces the ways in which women who do "unskilled" factory work have gained in self-esteem as well as financial stability from holding paid jobs. Throughout, Rosen explores the relationship between public work experiences and private family life. She analyzes the dynamics of two-paycheck, working class families, clarifies relationships between class and gender, and explores the impact of patriarchy and capitalism on working class women. At the same time Rosen places women's job loss within the broader economic context of global industrial transformations, demonstrating how international capital shifts to cheaper labor in developing countries, as well as technological progress, are changing the shape of the entire American labor force and are beginning to undermine the material and symbolic gains of the American female factory worker, the promise of market equality, and progressive working conditions.
"This book is a significant contribution to our understanding of women's work and family lives, but it is also a valuable look at the consequences of deindustrialization in America for workers, their families, and their communities."—Myra Marx Ferree, American Journal of Sociology
Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data from interviews with more than two hundred such women factory workers, Rosen traces the ways in which women who do "unskilled" factory work have gained in self-esteem as well as financial stability from holding paid jobs. Throughout, Rosen explores the relationship between public work experiences and private family life. She analyzes the dynamics of two-paycheck, working class families, clarifies relationships between class and gender, and explores the impact of patriarchy and capitalism on working class women. At the same time Rosen places women's job loss within the broader economic context of global industrial transformations, demonstrating how international capital shifts to cheaper labor in developing countries, as well as technological progress, are changing the shape of the entire American labor force and are beginning to undermine the material and symbolic gains of the American female factory worker, the promise of market equality, and progressive working conditions.
"This book is a significant contribution to our understanding of women's work and family lives, but it is also a valuable look at the consequences of deindustrialization in America for workers, their families, and their communities."—Myra Marx Ferree, American Journal of Sociology
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Ellen Israel Rosen is associate professor of sociology at Nichols College.
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MARIA SANTOS IS THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
women job losers, job loss sample, packing light bulbs, unionized factory jobs, reemployment outcomes, women production workers, union chairperson, women factory workers, displaced women, more cutbacks, displaced men, job displacement, apparel workers, garment shop, bitter choices, more demoralized, wage advantage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New England, New York, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor, United States, Condo Electric, Third World, Rhode Island, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, Carol Ponti, Fall River, Have Trouble, World War, Basic Books, Cerulean Electric, Millie Barnes, Sonia May, Celia Triano, Lexington Books, Marcia Penvert, Mary Florence, The Deindustrialization of America, University of Chicago Press, Brown University New!
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MARIA SANTOS IS THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
women job losers, job loss sample, packing light bulbs, unionized factory jobs, reemployment outcomes, women production workers, union chairperson, women factory workers, displaced women, more cutbacks, displaced men, job displacement, apparel workers, garment shop, bitter choices, more demoralized, wage advantage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New England, New York, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor, United States, Condo Electric, Third World, Rhode Island, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, Carol Ponti, Fall River, Have Trouble, World War, Basic Books, Cerulean Electric, Millie Barnes, Sonia May, Celia Triano, Lexington Books, Marcia Penvert, Mary Florence, The Deindustrialization of America, University of Chicago Press, Brown University New!
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- Women A Feminist Perspective by Jo Freeman on page 208, and Back Matter
- Mental Illness and the Economy by M. Harvey Brenner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Ethnic Minorities (Aspects of Britain) by HMSO Books on page 201, and page 203
- Women, Work and Family by Louise A. Tilly on page 201, and page 202
- Plant Closings and Economic Dislocation by Jeanne Prial Gordus in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Making Sweatshops: The Globalization of the U.S. Apparel Industry by Ellen Israel Rosen on page 254, and page 276
- High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean by Carla Freeman in Back Matter
- Sunbelt Working Mothers: Reconciling Family and Factory (Anthropology of Contemporary Issues) by Louise Lamphere in Back Matter
- Class Struggle or Family Struggle?: The Lives of Women Factory Workers in South Korea by Seung-kyung Kim in Back Matter
- Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World (Unu/Intech Studies in New Technology and Development) by Swasti Mitter on page 42
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