Making Up the Difference

Women, Beauty, and Direct Selling in Ecuador

Autor: Erynn Masi de Casanova

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: University of Texas Press

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Globalization and economic restructuring have decimated formal jobs in developing countries, pushing...

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Autor

Erynn Masi de Casanova

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2011

strony

261

EAN

9780292743915

ISBN

0292743912

Enbook ID

04873658

Wydawca

University of Texas Press

Waga

426

Wymiary

230 x 154 x 17

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Globalization and economic restructuring have decimated formal jobs in developing countries, pushing many women into informal employment such as direct selling of cosmetics, perfume, and other personal care products as a way to "make up the difference" between household income and expenses. In Ecuador, with its persistent economic crisis and few opportunities for financially and personally rewarding work, women increasingly choose direct selling as a way to earn income by activating their social networks. While few women earn the cars and trips that are iconic prizes in the direct selling organization, many use direct selling as part of a set of household survival strategies. In this first in-depth study of a cosmetics direct selling organization in Latin America, Erynn Masi de Casanova explores women's identities as workers, including their juggling of paid work and domestic responsibilities, their ideas about professional appearance, and their strategies for collecting money from customers. Focusing on women who work for the country's leading direct selling organization, she offers fascinating portraits of the everyday lives of women selling personal care products in Ecuador's largest city, Guayaquil. Addressing gender relations (including a look at men's direct and indirect involvement), the importance of image, and the social and economic context of direct selling, Casanova challenges assumptions that this kind of flexible employment resolves women's work/home conflicts and offers an important new perspective on women's work in developing countries.

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