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Declining Odds: Kinship, Women's Employment, and Political Economy in Rural Mexico
Author(s) -
Rothstein Frances Abrahamer
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1999.101.3.579
Subject(s) - kinship , odds , politics , rural community , rural economy , family economy , rural area , sociology , economics , demographic economics , political economy , economic growth , political science , market economy , logistic regression , medicine , anthropology , law
Some women in San Cosme Mazatecochco, a rural community in central Mexico, whose families have more diverse networks and a slight economic advantage, use the community's flexible kinship system to get more secure employment. But their ability to do so is limited by the larger political economy. As the Mexican economy deteriorates for working‐class Mexicans and the class system becomes more closed, more women participate in the labor force and more women have marginal employment, [political economy, kinship, women, class, Mexico]