La historia detrás de las cifras: la evolución del censo chileno y la representación del trabajo femenino, 1895-1930

Historians have regularly assumed the transparency of census statistics on women’s employment in Chile, which suggest a steady decline in female employment -particulary in industry- from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth century. Arguing that quantitative sources are like other histori...

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Autor principal: Hutchison,Elizabeth Quay
Lenguaje:Spanish / Castilian
Publicado: Instituto de Historia. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 2000
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spelling oai:scielo:S0717-719420000033000092005-11-14La historia detrás de las cifras: la evolución del censo chileno y la representación del trabajo femenino, 1895-1930Hutchison,Elizabeth QuayHistorians have regularly assumed the transparency of census statistics on women’s employment in Chile, which suggest a steady decline in female employment -particulary in industry- from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth century. Arguing that quantitative sources are like other historical documents social constructions, this article first explores the limitations of the Chilean census as an accurate measure of female economic activity. The article hen shows how, because the progressive "modernization" of the census implied substantive changes in the collection and interpretation of census data, women’s economic activity became increasingly invisible as the century progressed. This critical reading of census materials allows us both to question contemporary assumptions about women’s economic participation and to examine the changing notions of labor that were integral to the formation of state labor and welfare policies in early twentieth-century Chileinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessInstituto de Historia. Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileHistoria (Santiago) v.33 20002000-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-71942000003300009es10.4067/S0717-71942000003300009
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description Historians have regularly assumed the transparency of census statistics on women’s employment in Chile, which suggest a steady decline in female employment -particulary in industry- from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth century. Arguing that quantitative sources are like other historical documents social constructions, this article first explores the limitations of the Chilean census as an accurate measure of female economic activity. The article hen shows how, because the progressive "modernization" of the census implied substantive changes in the collection and interpretation of census data, women’s economic activity became increasingly invisible as the century progressed. This critical reading of census materials allows us both to question contemporary assumptions about women’s economic participation and to examine the changing notions of labor that were integral to the formation of state labor and welfare policies in early twentieth-century Chile
author Hutchison,Elizabeth Quay
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La historia detrás de las cifras: la evolución del censo chileno y la representación del trabajo femenino, 1895-1930
author_facet Hutchison,Elizabeth Quay
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title La historia detrás de las cifras: la evolución del censo chileno y la representación del trabajo femenino, 1895-1930
title_short La historia detrás de las cifras: la evolución del censo chileno y la representación del trabajo femenino, 1895-1930
title_full La historia detrás de las cifras: la evolución del censo chileno y la representación del trabajo femenino, 1895-1930
title_fullStr La historia detrás de las cifras: la evolución del censo chileno y la representación del trabajo femenino, 1895-1930
title_full_unstemmed La historia detrás de las cifras: la evolución del censo chileno y la representación del trabajo femenino, 1895-1930
title_sort la historia detrás de las cifras: la evolución del censo chileno y la representación del trabajo femenino, 1895-1930
publisher Instituto de Historia. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
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