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Degree |
Discipline |
School |
Date |
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Ph.D |
Anthropology (Cultural) |
Pittsburgh |
1974 |
Major Influences on Professional Life:
Stephen Polgar, Eleanor Leacock,
Barbara Leons
Subfields of interest within Anthropology:
Anthropology of work, political economy, globalization, development, industrialization,
gender
Interests in the Anthropology of Work:
flexible production, peasant-workers, small-scale manufacturing, globalization,
gender, class resistance, unions
Regions of specialization and Languages:
Mexico (Tlaxcala); Spanish
Major Publications:
Flexibility for Whom? Small-Scale Garment Manufacturing in Rural Mexico.
In Alan Smart and Josephine Smart, eds. petty Capitalists: Flexibility and the
Global Economy. Albany: SUNY Press (in press).
"Declining Odds: Kinship, Women's Employment, and Political Economy in Rural Mexico." American Anthropologists 101 (3), 1999.
Anthropology and the Global Factory (Co-edited with Michael Blim). Bergin and Garvey, 1991.
Three Different Worlds: Women, Men and Children in an Industrializing Community. Greenwood Press. 1982.
Other Relevant Information (Current research, interests, goals):
Flexible production, subcontracting, garment production