Date of Award

1-1-2013

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latino Studies

Program

Spanish

Content Description

1 online resource (xiv, 240 pages) : illustrations (some color), color map.

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Fernando I Leiva

Committee Members

Edna Acosta-Belén, Susan Gauss

Keywords

Cigar Manufacturing, Dominican Republic, Gender, Labor Process, Production Models, Women Workers, Women cigar makers, Cigar industry, Sexual division of labor

Subject Categories

Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Labor Relations | Latin American Studies

Abstract

This dissertation uncovers the different gendered labor processes that have shaped the cigar women workers or tabaqueras' work experiences on the cigar shop floor or galera since the 1940s. I argue that contradictory processes of exclusion and inclusion in the urban-rural nexus of the tobacco/cigar economy may be based on gendered notions of skills. This gendered notion may be traced to how changes in state policy, international markets, and financial systems as well as changes in premium cigar production models, have transformed the galera's social organization and labor process.

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