Javier Auyero is Lozano Long Professor in Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao. He is the author of
Women at Work: The Social Life of a Community Center
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Published:February 2025
Based on six months of participant observation at a community center, chapter 8 examines poor women’s care work and their quest for recognition. We show that the community center is a site of intense sociability and collective care, central to the formation of a particular type of female identity.
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