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080			_a13.09.02 K295
100			_aKelly, Deidre M.
245			_aHard work, hard choices : a survey of women in St. Lucia's export-oriented electronics factories
260			_bISER _aCave HillBB _c1987
300			_axiii, 127 p.
520			_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.
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942			_cM _mK295
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