Name: Fishers at Work, Workers at Sea: Puerto Rican Journey Thru Labor & Refuge
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Author: Griffith, David ; Pizzini, Manuel Valdes
ISBN: 9781566399111

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Fishers at Work, Workers at Sea: Puerto Rican Journey Thru Labor & Refuge

Type

Physical Book

Author

David Griffith

Contributions by

Manuel Valdes Pizzini

Publisher

Temple University Press

Language

English

Pages

280

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.8 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.38 kg.

ISBN

9781566399111

ISBN13

9781566399111

Synopsis "Fishers at Work, Workers at Sea: Puerto Rican Journey Thru Labor & Refuge"

Small-scale fishing, a household-based enterprise in Puerto Rico, rarely provides sufficient income for a family, but it anchors their culture and sense of themselves within that culture. Even when family members must engage in wage work to supplement household income, they think of themselves as fishers. As the authors say of one of these wage workers: When he was quite young, he left the island to struggle in other lands, to work, to raise a family, to send home the money he earned. Ten, twenty, thirty years passed...during which he did not once fish or even see the ocean. But in a boat-building factory in New Jersey, in a bakery in the Bronx, on the production line of a chemical factory, on dozens of construction sites, every single day he made a mental review of the waters, the isles and cays...and entertained no thought that was not related to his return. Fishers at Work, Workers at Sea describes Puerto Rican fishing families as they negotiate homeland and diaspora. It considers how wage work affects their livelihoods and identities at home and how these independent producers move in and out of global commodity markets. Drawing on some 100 life histories and years of fieldwo

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