1. Conceptualizing Poor Women, Household Dynamics, and Industrialization -- 2. Industrial and Agrarian Change in Java -- 3. Javanese Women and the Family -- 4. The Villages -- 5. The Factories -- 6. Life in a Spinning Mill -- 7. Determinants of Factory Employment -- 8. Factory Daughters and the Family Economy -- 9. Marriage -- 10. The Family Economy Revisited: Daughters, Work, and the Life Cycle
Summary
Looking at the households where Javanese women live and the factories where they labour, Diane Wolf reveals the contradictions, constraints and changes in women's lives in the Third World and identifies the complex dynamics of class, gender, agrarian change and industrialization in rural Java
Analysis
Women Employment
Java (Indonesia)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-316) and index
