The segmented assimilation theory offers a theoretical framework for understanding the process by which the new second generation – the children of contemporary immigrants – becomes incorporated in

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Segmented assimilation: issues, controversies, and recent research on the new second generation.

Gender, Work and Space explores how social boundaries are constructed between women and men, and among women living in different places. Focusing on work, the segregation of men and women into different occupations, and variations in women's work experiences in different parts of the city, the authors argue that these differences are grounded, constituted in and through, space, place, and situated social networks. The sheer range and depth of this extraordinary study throws new light on the construction of social, geographic, economic, and symbolic boundaries in ordinary lives.

Gender, Work and Space

Feminists have made important contributions to sociology, but we have yet to transform the basic conceptual frameworks of the field. A comparison of sociology with anthropology, history, and literature–disciplines which have been more deeply transformed–suggests factors that may facilitate or inhibit feminist paradigm shifts. The traditional subject matter of sociology fell into a co-optable middle ground, neither as thoroughly male centered as in history or literature, nor as deeply gendered as in anthropology. In addition, feminist perspectives have been contained in sociology by functionalist conceptualizations of gender, by the inclusion of gender as a variable rather than as a theoretical category, and by being ghettoized, especially in Marxist sociology. Feminist rethinking is also affected by underlying epistemologies (proceeding more rapidly in fields based on interpretive rather than positivist understanding), and by the status and nature of theory within a discipline.

The missing feminist revolution in sociology

This volume studies the role of natural resources in development and economic diversification. It brings together a variety of analytical perspectives, ranging from econometric analyses of economic growth to historical studies of successful development experiences in countries with abundant natural resources. This book addresses two key questions for policy makers in natural resource-rich regions such as Latin America: First, is natural resource wealth an asset or a liability for development and, if potentially the former, how can its contribution be enhanced? And second, can countries rich in natural resources efficiently diversify toward manufacturing or service-sector exports?

Natural Resources, Neither Curse nor Destiny

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Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition (update of 2007 review)

TablesIllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Women Workers and Early Industrialization2. The Early Textile Idustry and the Rise of Lowell3. The Lowell Work Force, 1836, and the Social Origins of Women Workers4. The Social Relations of Production in the Early Mills5. The Boardinghouse6. The Early Strikes: The 1830s7. The Ten Hour Movement: The 1840s8. The Transformation of Lowell, 1836-1850, and the New NMill Work Force 9. Immigrants in the Mills, 1850-186010. Housing and Families of Women Operatives11. Careers of Operatives, 1836-186012. The Operatives' Response, 1850-1860Appendixes1. Preparation of the Hamilton Company Payroll, 18362. The Social Origins Study3. The Hamilton Company Work Force, August 1850 and June 18604. The 1860 Millhand Sample5. Sources of Bias and Considerations of Representativeness

Women at work: the transformation of work and community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860

Cradle to Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines

Family Time and Industrial Time: The Relationship between the Family and Work in a New England Industrial Community

"I am not living upon my friends or doing housework for my board but am a factory girl," asserted Anna Mason in the early 1850s. Although many young women who worked in the textile mills found that the industrial revolution brought greater independence to their lives, most working women in nineteenth-century New England did not, according to Thomas Dublin. Sketching engaging portraits of women's experience in cottage industries, factories, domestic service, and village schools, Dublin demonstrates that the autonomy of working women actually diminished as growing numbers lived with their families and contributed their earnings to the household. From diaries, letters, account books, and censuses, Dublin reconstructs employment patterns across the century as he shows how wage work increasingly came to serve the needs of families, rather than of individual women. He first examines the case of rural women engaged in the cottage industries of weaving and palm-leaf hatmaking between 1820 and 1850. Next, he compares the employment experiences of women in the textile mills of Lowell and the shoe factories of Lynn. Following a discussion of Boston working women in the middle decades of the century-particularly domestic servants and garment workers-Dublin turns his attention to the lives of women teachers in three New Hampshire towns.

Thomas Dublin

Papers

Women at work: the transformation of work and community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860

Cradle to Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines

Family Time and Industrial Time: The Relationship between the Family and Work in a New England Industrial Community

Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution

Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution