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AbstractAnthropologist A. Lynn Bolles shares her experiences of the way in which Leith Mullings shaped her life and the lives of others. Bolles reflects on how Mullings would forcefully and emphatically create pathways and support systems to encourage Bolles and other sister‐scholars to grow and lead within professional spaces she was often surprised to find herself in.

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Using the life stories of four urban, working-class women in Jamaica, this study examines how female economic activity is differentially affected by structural adjustment policies over a five-year period (1980-85). The Jamaican working-class familial organization centers on women as mothers and as providers. Under conditions framed by structural adjustment policies, the macro constraints of the national economy come face to face with the micro-level activities of working-class and poor women, children and men