In Labors Appropriate to Their Sex Elizabeth Quay Hutchison addresses the plight of working women in early twentieth-century Chile, when the growth of urban manufacturing was transforming the contours of women s wage work and stimulating significant public debate, new legislation, educational reform, and social movements directed at women workers. Challenging earlier interpretations of women s economic role in Chile s industrial growth, which took at face value census figures showing a dramatic decline in women s industrial work after 1907, Hutchison shows how the spread of industrial...

In Labors Appropriate to Their Sex Elizabeth Quay Hutchison addresses the plight of working women in early twentieth-century Chile, when the growth of urban manufacturing was transforming the contours of women s wage work and stimulating significant public debate, new legislation, educational reform, and social movements directed at women workers. Challenging earlier interpretations of women s economic role in Chile s industrial growth, which took at face value census figures showing a dramatic decline in women s industrial work after 1907, Hutchison shows how the spread of industrial...