Harnessing Women’s Work: Restructuring Agricultural and Industrial Labor Forces in the Dominican RepublicFootnote

* I thank Jill Belsky, Lourdes Benería, Jayati Lal, Susan Tiano, Susan Hanson, and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on this article. Partial support for this research was provided by the Inter-American Foundation. The views presented here are the responsibility of the author alone. Earlier drafts of this article were presented at the 1994 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association and the Latin American Studies Association XVIII International Congress.

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