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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Contextualizing Women's Work in Special Period Cuba
• 2. Women and Work in Cuba During the First Three Decades of the Revolution, 1959-1989
• 3. 'El Salario no Alcanzaba': The Salary Did Not Stretch
• 4. 'The Invisible Day'
• 5. Formal Work: State Occupations and Work in the Tourist Industry
• 6. Informal Work: Cuentapropismo, La Lucha, and Jineterismo
• 7. The Combination of Different Types of Work
• 8. Attitudes Towards Work
• 9. Conclusion: 'Yo creo que nosotros estamos en el PE todavía'-I Still Think We're in the Special Period. .