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Author Abisaab, Malek

Title Militant women of a fragile nation / Malek Abisaab
Edition 1st ed
Published Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 300 pages)
Series Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms
Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms.
Contents From loom to puff: women and waged labor in colonial Lebanon -- Domesticity and waged labor: gendered and class polemics in colonial and postcolonial times -- At the legal frontiers: "unruly" workingwomen between colonial authority and the national state, 1940-1946 -- Rural displacement and migration among the Régie workers, 1950-1980 -- Women negotiate family and work: 1950-1997 -- "Qati al-arzaq min qati al-anaq": gendered boundaries and class, tobacco women's struggle, 1960-1965
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Women tobacco workers -- Lebanon -- Social conditions
Women tobacco workers -- Political activity -- Lebanon -- History
Tobacco industry -- Lebanon -- History
Tobacco workers -- Labor unions -- Lebanon -- History
Working class women -- Lebanon -- Social conditions
Women in the labor movement -- Lebanon -- History
Women's rights -- Lebanon -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Tobacco industry
Tobacco workers -- Labor unions
Women in the labor movement
Women tobacco workers -- Political activity
Women tobacco workers -- Social conditions
Women's rights
Working class women -- Social conditions
Arbeiterbewegung
Arbeiterin
Politisches Handeln
Soziale Situation
Tabakindustrie
Lebanon
Libanon
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780815650645
0815650647