In Morocco today; the idea of female laborers is generally frowned upon. Yet despite this; many women are beginning to find work in factories.Laetitia Cairoli spent a year in the ancient city of Fes; Girls of the Factory tells the story of what life is like for working women. Forced to find a factory job herself so that she could speak more intimately with working women; she was able to learn firsthand why they work; what working means to them; and how important earning a wage is to their sense of self.Cairoli conveys a general sense of the working life of women in Morocco by describing daily life inside a Moroccan sewing factory. She also reveals the additional work they face inside their homes. More than an ethnography; this volume is also for those who want to better understand what life is like for a new generation of young women just entering the workforce.
#3030905 in Books University Press of Florida 2000-01-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.02 x .35 x 5.98l; .51 #File Name: 0813021170160 pages
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful. A Slaveholder but by no means a RacistBy Manuel A. Lebron"Balancing Evils Judiciously: The Proslavery Writings of Zephaniah Kingsley" successfully portrays the ideas my 4-times-great-grandfather shared about the relationship between race and the institution of slavery. The editors' comments go straight to the point of it all: that the idea of slavery must not be based on race; or for that matter; racism. Kingsley himself was an enigma; a contradiction. Few white men held a stronger appreciation for the Negro race; as his writings and personal life indicate. It seems that towards the end of his life (as shown by his establishment of a colony of most of his freed slaves and his family in the northern part of the island of Hispaniola; specifically what is today the Dominican Republic) he embraced the abolitionist cause. The settlement he founded; a tiny model of Liberia in the Caribbean; is now the bustling tourist town of Cabarete. I earnestly recommend anybody interested in understanding and interpreting the sad story of slavery -specifically how it relates to anti-African racism- to read this book; and to pay extra careful attention to the original footnotes written by my ancestor- perhaps then some light might be shed on this chapter of the ongoing American saga: race relations.
