Women’s Work and Chicano Families

**At the time* ** ** Women’s Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley*** **was published, little research had been done on the relationship between the wage labor and household labor of Mexican American women.** Drawing on revisionist social theories relating to Chicano family structure as well as on feminist theory, Patricia Zavella paints a compelling picture of the Chicano women who worked in northern California’s fruit and vegetable canneries. Her book combines social history, shop floor ethnography, and in-depth interviews to explore the links between Chicano family life and gender inequality in the labor market.