book chapter
Negotiating gender, work, and welfare: Familia as productive labor among Puerto Rican in New York City
Puerto Rican women and work : bridges in transnational labor • Philadelphia • Published In 1996 • Pages: 184-208
By: Torruellas, Rosa M., Benmayor, Rina, Juarbe, Ana.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is based on the life histories of sixteen Puerto Rican women whom the authors met in an adult literacy program. Although these women have been on welfare, they are not the mythical 'welfare moms' disparaged in the news media. Rather they are hard working people who came to America to improve their life chances. Unfortunately they were caught in a double squeeze of New York's declining garment industry and domestic responsibilities, which forced them to go on welfare as a last resort. The authors argue that the failure to recognize domestic work as productive labor penalizes and stigmatizes mothers, as they struggle to put food on the table and earn respect in a prejudicial system.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Labor supply and employment
- Labor relations
- Household
- Public assistance
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Puerto Ricans (Mainland)
- 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 chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Educator
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1986-1991
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1960-1990
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- New York, N.Y., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Rosa M. Torruellas, Rina Benmayor, Ana Juarbe
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 95043822
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Puerto Ricans--United States