Laboring for the State: Women, Family, and Work in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959-1971

by Rachel M. Hynson

Contrary to claims that socialism opposed the family unit, Rachel M. Hynson argues that the revolutionary Cuban government engaged in social engineering to redefine the nuclear family and organize citizens to serve the state. Drawing on Cuban newspapers and periodicals, government documents and speeches, long-overlooked laws, and oral histories, Hynson reveals that by 1961, and increasingly throughout this decade, revolutionary citizenship was earned...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107188679
• ISBN13: 9781107188679
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"