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Unemployment and female labour : a study of labour supply in Kingston, Jamaica

Title
  1. Unemployment and female labour : a study of labour supply in Kingston, Jamaica / Guy Standing.
Published by
  1. New York : St. Martin's Press, ©1981.
Author
  1. Standing, Guy.

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Additional authors
  1. International Labour Office.
Description
  1. xii, 364 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
  1. ILO pub-WEP pub. Monograph comprising a WEP study on the labour force participation of woman workers in urban area Jamaica - finds that poverty, family pressures and rural migration forced women into low income employment leading to market effects in the sexual division of labour, and labour market segmentation, and discusses active and passive unemployment, impact of industrialization, educational level, demographic aspects and behavioural factors, etc., on the proletarianization of women. Bibliography.
Subject
  1. Women > Employment > Jamaica > Kingston
  2. Unemployed > Jamaica > Kingston
  3. Labor supply > Jamaica > Kingston
  4. Working class > Jamaica > Kingston
  5. Working class
  6. Labor supply
  7. Social conditions
  8. Unemployed
  9. Women > Employment
  10. Vrouwen
  11. Arbeidsmarkt
  12. WEP
  13. labour force participation
  14. women workers
  15. urban area
  16. poverty
  17. family
  18. rural migration
  19. low income
  20. employment
  21. sexual division of labour
  22. labour market segmentation
  23. unemployment
  24. industrialization
  25. educational level
  26. demographic aspect
  27. behaviour
  28. women
  29. PME
  30. taux d'activité
  31. travailleuses
  32. zone urbaine
  33. pauvreté
  34. famille
  35. migration rurale
  36. faible revenu
  37. emploi
  38. division du travail basée sur le sexe
  39. segmentation du marché du travail
  40. chômage
  41. industrialisation
  42. niveau d'enseignement
  43. aspect démographique
  44. comportement
  45. femmes
  46. tasa de actividad de mano de obra
  47. trabajadoras
  48. zona urbana
  49. pobreza
  50. familia
  51. migración rural
  52. bajos ingresos
  53. empleo
  54. división del trabajo por sexo
  55. segmentación del mercado de trabajo
  56. desempleo
  57. industrialización
  58. nivel educativo
  59. aspecto demográfico
  60. comportamiento
  61. mujeres
  62. Kingston (Jamaica) > Social conditions
  63. Jamaica > Kingston
  64. Jamaica
  65. Jamaïque
Genre/Form
  1. ILO pub.
  2. WEP pub.
  3. bibliography.
  4. pub OIT.
  5. pub PME.
  6. bibliographie.
  7. bibliografía.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. "Prepared for the International Labour Office within the framework of the World employment programme."
  2. Includes indexes.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. 339-357.