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Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:The African women workers in the textile industry in Duban
Authors:Westmore, Jean
Townsend, Pat
Year:1979
Periodical:Africa Perspective
Issue:11
Pages:30-40
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:women's employment
women's work
textile industry
Abstract:This article examines how the women's position as workers is effected by the ideological role of sexism which operates to stigmatise certain segments of the labour force in order to facilitate exploitation. A second article (p. 42-46) reviews the extent and importance of sexism and sex-based discrimination on the working. living and, particularly political lives of African women textile workers in Westmore an Townsend in Durban area.
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