The Resources of Poverty: Women and Survival in a Mexican City

Patricia L. Price, Mercedes González de la Rocha

Economic Geography · 1997 · 170 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

1. The Resources of Poverty. Urban Households, Survival and Reproduction. 2. Guadalajara and Working-Class Households. Characteristics and Differences. 3. The Domestic Cycle. 4. Patterns of Consumption. 5. The Household: A Contradictory Unity. 6. Working-Class Women in Guadalajara. 7. Single-Parent Households. 8. The Penalties of Social Isolation. 9. Self-Construction, Self-Urbanization: Political Cooptation.