Dissertation Research: Women's Work? Household Health and Economic Restructuring in Appalachian Kentucky

本项目支持肯塔基大学人类学学生的学位论文研究。该项目将审查肯塔基州阿巴拉契亚地区妇女劳动模式和家庭保健做法的变化，该地区妇女参加有工资劳动的人数有所增加。利用参与观察、结构化深度访谈和妇女记录家庭健康事件的日记等民族志技术，学生将描述和分析妇女制定的新策略，以履行她们在劳动力市场工作的同时照顾家庭健康的责任。这项研究很重要，因为它将增进我们对家庭人力资本如何受到全球经济结构调整进程的影响的理解，妇女由此进入劳动力市场。了解妇女如何应对对其服务的新要求，将使决策者能够设计方案，既保持家庭健康，又使妇女在工资市场上具有生产力。

This project supports the dissertation research of an anthropology student from the University of Kentucky. The project will examine the changing patterns of women's labor and household health practices in an Appalachian Kentucky country experiencing an increase in women's wage labor participation. Using ethnographic techniques of participant observation, structured in-depth interviewing, and diaries in which women record health incidents in their households, the student will describe and analyze the new strategies women develop to comply with their responsibilities to care for the health of their households while at the same time working in the labor market. This research is important as it will advance our understanding of how the human capital of households is being affected by the global processes of economic restructuring, whereby women are entering the labor market. Understanding how women are coping with the new demands on their services will enable policy-makers to design programs to maintain the health of families while enabling women to be productive in the wage market.