Latin America has partly overcome the short-term adjustment stage following the external
debt crisis and is now in a stage of restructuring marked by opening up to external markets …

This article seeks to make an orderly summary of the information on urban female labour in
Latin America in the 1990s and thus make a contribution to an updated diagnosis of the …

The shift from an agrarian to an urban society in advanced capitalist as well as Third World
countries has generally been accompanied by the decline in the family as a productive unit …

This chapter focuses on increasing labor force participation due to economic changes
accompanying the growth of urbanization and industrialization. It describes impact of these …

Utilizing recent census and household survey data, this paper examines the position of
women in Latín American labour markets from the following perspectives: levels of economic …

This chapter provides an overview of trends in urban livelihoods and employment in Latin
America between 1980 and the present. The discussion commences with an introduction to …

This paper analyzes five explanatory perspectives on women's economic participation in
Latin American labor markets during the past three decades:(1) modernization, which …

This book sets out with the ambitious task of exploring the various influences on the labour
force participation of low-income women, and exploring the inter-relationships between …

From the late 1980s, economic restructuring accompanying trade liberalization reshaped
Mexican labour markets, eliminating jobs in many traditional manufacturing industries. The …

In contrast to the advanced industrial countries where feminist work has concentrated on the
family as the main site for women's oppression, in Latin America the focus has been more on …