Young women and work -- Earning a living : daughters and the family economy -- Entering employment -- Mobility, migration, and aspiration -- Work culture -- "Frivolous" workers? : trade unionism and militancy -- Beyond the workplace : leisure and courtship

Prólogo /Rossana Barragán Romano y Amaru Villanueva Rance --1.Género del trabajo/no trabajo --Introducción /Mirta Zaida Lobato / Verena Stolcke / María Ullivarri --¿Qué es trabajo? Las fronteras conceptuales entre trabajo y no trabajo /Fernanda Wanderley --Los "sin trabajo" antes del...

"Love and the Working Class is a unique look at the emotions of hard-living, racially diverse nineteenth-century Americans who were often on the cusp of literacy. Wrongly assumed to be inarticulate on paper, these laboring folk highly valued letters and, however difficult it was, wrote to stay...

""Capital is moved to where low-wage labour is available, and migrants move - often in large numbers - to where investments and/or wealth accumulated due to specific historic factors create a demand for labour". This volume explores this idea and contributes to the fields of global labour,...