"Comparative sociohistorical study examines interplay of the economy and gender relationships in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. Offers extended treatment of the impact of Operation Bootstrap on Puerto Rican women and gender relationships, the impact on women of the Dominican...

In 2002, the town of Galesburg, a slowly declining Rustbelt city of 34,000 in western Illinois, learned that it would soon lose its largest factory, a Maytag refrigerator plant that had anchored Galesburg's social and economic life for half a century. Workers at the plant earned $15.14 an hour,...