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Title Middle Eastern women and the invisible economy / edited by Richard A. Lobban with a foreword by Elizabeth W. Fernea
Published Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 302 pages) : illustrations
Contents Nubian women and the shadow economy / Anne M. Jennings -- Baggara women as market strategists / Barbara J. Michael -- Invisible survivors : women and diversity in the transitional economy of Yemen / Delores M. Walters -- The invisible economy, survival, and empowerment : five cases from Atbara, Sudan / Nada Mustafa M. Ali -- Urban Egyptian women in the informal health care sector / Marcia C. Inhorn -- Nest eggs of gold and beans : Baladi Egyptian women's invisible capital / Evelyn A. Early
Women, work, and the informal economy in rural Egypt / Barbara K. Larson -- Women and home-based microenterprises / Marie Butler -- "Invisible" work, work at home: the condition of Tunisian women / Sophie Ferchiou -- Women in the invisible economy in Tunis / Richard A. Lobban, Jr. -- The invisible economy at the edges of the Medina of Tunis / Isabelle Berry-Chikhaoui -- Marcel : straddling visible and invisible Lebanese economies / Suad Joseph -- Women in Cairo's (in)visible economy : linking local and national trends / Homa Hoodfar -- Engaging informality : women, work, and politics in Cairo / Diane Singerman
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Women -- Employment -- Arab countries
Informal sector (Economics) -- Arab countries
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Informal sector (Economics)
Women -- Employment
Werkende vrouwen.
Informele economie.
Arab countries
Arabische wereld.
Form Electronic book
Author Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock, 1927-2008.
LC no. 98012588
ISBN 0813022916
9780813022918
0813015774
9780813015774