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Fishers at work, workers at sea : a Puerto Rican journey through labor and refuge
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- Summary
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Based on a sample survey of 102 households. Focuses on Puerto Rican fishers who also engage in paid employment in the USA.
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- Creator
- David Griffith and Manuel Valdés Pizzini
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©2002
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781566399104, 1439907633, 9781439907634, 1566399114, 1566399106, 9781566399111
- OCLC
- ocm46731165, ocn714808861
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-261) and index.
- Preface -- Divided selves: Domestic production and wage labor in Puerto Rico and anthropology -- Palatable coercion: Fishing in Puerto Rican history -- Puerto Rican fisheries -- Chiripas: Working class opportunity and semiproletarianization -- Injury and therapy -- Road less traveled: Proletarianization and its discontents -- Power games: Work versus leisure along Puerto Rico's coast -- fragments of refuge -- References -- Index -- Photographs follow page 120