Book
Household work/subsistence strategies among Mexican Americans of the lower Rio Grande Valley
University Microfilms International • Ann Arbor, Michigan • Published In 1986 • Pages:
By: Briody, Elizabeth Kathleen.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This dissertation examines work and subsistence strategies employed by low income Chicano households in the lower Rio Grande Valley between 1948 and 1983 (p. viii). The subjects it covers are a social and economic history of agriculture in south Texas, labor immigration to the lower Rio Grande Valley, life in the COLONíA, changing patterns of agricultural labor, seasonal household migration, work strategies outside of agriculture, and public and private forms of assistance.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Labor supply and employment
- External migration
- Internal migration
- Labor relations
- Production and supply
- Sociocultural trends
- Division of labor by gender
- Income and demand
- Household
- Public assistance
- Private welfare agencies
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chicanos
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Marlene Martin ; 1986-1987
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1982-1983
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1740s - 1983
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lower Rio Grande Valley, south Texas, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Elizabeth Kathleen Briody
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Texas at Austin, 1985
- UM8529820
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 398-424)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mexican Americans