Struggling for Survival: Workers, Women, and Class on a Nicaraguan State Farm
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- Why Class Analysis? -- The State Farm's Class Structure -- Why Gender Relations? -- Gender Inequality in Nicaragua -- Notes -- 1 THE STATE FARM AND ITS ECONOMIC CONTEXT -- The Mixed Economy -- The Pre-Revolutionary Structure of Nicaraguan Agriculture -- The Formation of State Farms -- The Rural Class Structure -- The Rural Workers Association, ATC -- The Oscar Turcios Chavarria State Farm -- The Structure and Size of Oscar Turcios -- Labor Power Shortages -- The Monetary Wage -- Notes -- 2 CLASS RELATIONS -- The Class Structure of Oscar Turcios -- The Monetary Wage -- The SNOTS System at Oscar Turcios -- Wages, Norms, and Purchasing Power -- Performance Incentives -- Reclassifications -- Incentives in Kind -- The Social Wage -- Authority Relations -- Worker Participation on the State Farm -- Notes -- 3 GENDER RELATIONS -- AMNLAE's Position on Women's Uberation -- Nicaraguan Women and Employment -- The Feminization of the Rural Labor Force -- The ATC and Women Farmworkers -- The Gender Division of Labor -- The Burden of Domestic Labor -- The Gender Division of Labor at the Workplace -- Ideological Factors that Impinge upon the Gender Division of Labor at the Workplace -- Women Workers and the Norm System -- Union Participation and Training -- Notes -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Appendix: Recent Theories on Class and Gender -- Select Bibliography -- Index.