Book
Fishers at work, workers at sea: a Puerto Rican journey through labor and refuge
Temple University Press • Philadelphia • Published In 2002 • Pages:
By: Griffith, David Craig, Valdés Pizzini, Manuel.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is an investigative study of wage-labor activities among small-scale fishers in Puerto Rico. The document attempts to clarify the manner in which the incorporation of independent producers (the fishers) into labor and commodity markets affects their economic activities and their sense of self. Issues given special attention in this study are: resource exploitation and marine ecosystems; the allocation of household tasks among fisher families; relations among households; political activity; investment; and the fishers' own conceptions of the relationship between fishing, work, and labor. The authors' methodology included life histories, observation, structured tasks, and secondary source material.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Special crops
- Marine industries
- Fishing
- Labor and leisure
- Labor supply and employment
- Economic planning and development
- Cooperative organization
- Life history materials
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Puerto Ricans (Island)
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Caribbean
- 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
- John Beierle; 1993, 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1985-1996
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1898-1996
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Puerto Rico
- NotesAdditional notes
- David Griffith and Manuel Valdés Pizzini
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-261) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2001027640
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Fishers--Puerto Rico
- Fishers--Puerto Rico--Interviews
- Fisheries--Puerto Rico
- Wages--Fishers--Puerto Rico
- Household surveys--Puerto Rico
- Puerto Ricans--Florida
- Puerto Ricans--New York (State)--New York
- Migrant labor--Puerto Rico
- Migrant labor--United States