| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 207 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-199) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Flowers in the global assembly line -- Assembling flowers -- Disciplined labor, identity, and gender -- Land, housing, money, and social networks -- Cultivating homes -- Epilogue : gendered development. |
| Summary |
Explores the links between agro-industrial employment in the context of economic adjustment programs and the individual experience of employment and economic change at the household level. This ethnographic study challenges the academic consensus that tra. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cut flower industry -- Colombia.
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Women -- Employment -- Colombia.
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Sex role -- Colombia.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Friedemann-Sánchez, Greta, 1966- Assembling flowers and cultivating homes. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2006 0739109790 9780739109793 (DLC) 2005033716 (OCoLC)62342086 |
| ISBN |
9780739132975 (electronic bk.) |
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0739132970 (electronic bk.) |
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0739109790 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780739109793 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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