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Labour segmentation in the Spanish fish-canning industry: a historical perspective, 1880–1960

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2007

LUISA MUÑOZ ABELEDO
Affiliation:
Department of Economic History, Faculty of Economics, University of Santiago de Compostela.

Abstract

This article makes use of linkage of many different sources – official population censuses, wage books, interviews, the correspondence of many canning companies, notarial records, documents from canning unions – in order to investigate labour market segmentation between 1880 and 1960 in the Spanish fish-canning industry, a sector that employed mainly female labour. I explore some social and economic factors that explain why women were placed in the ‘secondary’ segment of the labour market in the fish-canning sector. The study also considers the earning differentials between men and women and the different types of contracts offered to male and female workers.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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