Women’s Work in Special Period Cuba

Making Ends Meet

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

The abrupt loss of Soviet financial support in 1989 resulted in the near-collapse of the Cuban economy, ushering in the almost two decades of austerity measures and severe shortages of food and basic consumer goods referred to as the Special Period.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-02-28
Mått:148 x 210 x 27 mm
Vikt:566 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:255
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030056292

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Daliany Jerónimo Kersh is Assistant Professor of International History at Richmond, The American International University in London.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Contextualizing Women's Work in Special Period Cuba.- 2. Women and Work in Cuba During the First Three Decades of the Revolution, 1959–1989.- 3. ‘El Salario no Alcanzaba’: The Salary Did Not Stretch.- 4. 'The Invisible Day'.- 5. Formal Work: State Occupations and Work in the Tourist Industry.- 6. Informal Work: Cuentapropismo, La Lucha, and Jineterismo.- 7. The Combination of Different Types of Work.- 8. Attitudes Towards Work.- 9. Conclusion: ‘Yo creo que nosotros estamos en el PE todavía’—I Still Think We’re in the Special Period.