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Silent Looms: Women and Production in a Guatemalan Town

Published 17 September 1990
Tracy Bachrach Ehlers
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Abstract

Based on new fieldwork in 1997, Tracy Bachrach Ehlers has updated her classic study of the effects of economic development on the women weavers of San Pedro Sacatepéquez. Revisiting many of the women she interviewed in the 1970s and 1980s and revising her earlier hopeful assessment of women's entrepreneurial opportunities, Ehlers convincingly demonstrates that development and commercial growth in the region have benefited men at the expense of women

Keywords

Social SciencesBusiness, Management and Accounting