Puerto Rican Women and Work: Bridges in Transnational Labor is the only comprehensive study of the role of Puerto Rican women workers in the evolution of a transnational labor force in the twentieth century.

This book examines Puerto Rican women workers, both in Puerto Rico and on the U.S. mainland. It contains a range of information--historical, ethnographic, and statistical. The contributors provide insights into the effects of migration and unionization on women's work, taking into account U.S. colonialism and globalization of capitalism throughout the century as well as the impact of Operation Bootstrap. The essays are arranged in chronological order to reveal the evolutionary nature of women's work and the fluctuations in migration, technology, and the economy. This one-of-a-kind collection will be a valuable resource for those interested in women's studies, ethnic studies, and Puerto Rican and Latino studies, as well as labor studies.

Altagracia Ortiz is Professor of History and Puerto Rican Studies at John Jay College, the City University of New York. She has written numerous articles on Puerto Rican women and work and is author of Eighteenth-Century Reforms in the Caribbean.

Contributors: Virginia Sánchez Korrol, Alice Colón-Warren, Carmen A. Pérez-Herranz, Marya Muñoz-Vázquez, Rosa M. Torruellas, Rina Benmayor, Ana Juarbe, Geraldine J. Casey.