Overview
- Examines women’s labor in post-Soviet Cuba, focusing on five main sources of income that women used to survive, including the black market, entrepreneurship, sex work, tourism sector work, and state employment, as well as combinations of work in different sectors
- Uses the theoretical framework of individual and collective memory to illuminate labor conditions for Cuban women since 1989
- Builds upon the feminisation thesis that Cuban women were disproportionately affected by the post-Soviet Special Period economic crisis
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Book Title: Women’s Work in Special Period Cuba
Book Subtitle: Making Ends Meet
Authors: Daliany Jerónimo Kersh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05630-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05629-2Published: 28 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05630-8Published: 14 February 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 255
Number of Illustrations: 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Latin American History, Oral History, Women's Studies, Labor History, Social History