Struggling For Survival : Workers, Women, And Class On A Nicaraguan State Farm

Now in its tenth year the Nicaraguan revolution has been studied from many perspectives. But few writers have attempted to analyze the revolution’s drive to transform the country’s relations of production. By offering a case study of a Nicaraguan state farm, this book aims to contribute to such an analysis. In focusing on class and gender, it reveals some aspects of the revolution’s evolving production relations. This book focuses on class and gender and on a state farm. It offers a partial analysis of some of the social processes underway on a Nicaraguan state farm. The book argues that women's family roles cannot be ignored in an analysis of gender relations on the state farm.