ABSTRACT
This book has two objectives, one theoretical and one substantive. The first concerns the development of a theoretical framework for integrating class and gender as linked systems of inequality. An important aspect of this project is the systematic analysis of employment divisions, their relationship with the family and the impact of both on consciousness and action. The second objective is to develop this theoretical framework through a substantive analysis of the labouring class in Peru during the period of import-substituting industrialization (the 1960s and 1970s). This was a key period in the development of urban class formation in Latin America, and one on which many class theories were based and subsequently rejected. The analysis presented here involves a reinterpretation of what actually happened then as well as a rethinking of the concepts through which the period is studied.
