Women's Work in Special Period Cuba Making Ends Meet /

• Main Author: Jerónimo Kersh, Daliany (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Latin America-History.; Oral history.; Women.; Labor-History.; Social history.; Latin American History.; Oral History.; Women's Studies.; Labor History.; Social History.

The abrupt loss of Soviet financial support in 1989 resulted in the near-collapse of the Cuban economy, ushering in the almost two decades of austerity measures and severe shortages of food and basic consumer goods referred to as the Special Period. Through the innovative framework of individual and...