01061nam a2200109Ia 4500080001800000100002100018245010100039260002800140300001700168520074700185583001900932  a13.09.02 K295  aKelly, Deidre M.  aHard work, hard choices : a survey of women in St. Lucia's export-oriented electronics factories  bISERaCave HillBBc1987  axiii, 127 p.  aGives history of the export-oriented industrialization strategy in St. Lucia.  Paints portrait of female production workers focusing on age, ethnic origin, residence, education, and household composition.  Provides employment data for a typical St. Lucian electronics worker discussing work experience, recruitment, transportation, training, tenure, and wages.  Examines health and safety conditions on the job; problems faced by women workers; the solutions as they see them; worker attitudes to management and trade unions, and worker aspirations.  Outlines roles of women as they relate to the home, the labour force, the family budget and family planning.  Makes recommendations relating to the development strategy and to worker welfare.  c3/7/00kM2LMGR