Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on February 2, 2007
Enterprise and Society 2007 8(1):204-206; doi:10.1093/es/khm002
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Diane C. Vecchio. Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women: Italian Migrants in Urban America
Diane C. Vecchio. Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women: Italian Migrants in Urban America. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2006. X + 130 pp. ISBN 0-252-03039-7, $35.00 (cloth)
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In Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women: Italian Migrants in Urban America, Diane C. Vecchio takes on "inherent assumptions about Italian culture and male control of women as a paradigm for understanding Italian women's work and wage-earning experiences"(p. 2). Instead, she offers a portrait of working women who are agents in the economic fortunes of their families and the cultural practices of their communities, making decisions about their employment based on local economic conditions and a variety of additional variables: gender segmentation of the workforce, geographical
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