The Silver Women by Joan Flores-Villalobos

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/29687 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Silver Women Author: Joan Flores-Villalobos Narrator: Marisol Ramirez Format: mp3 Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins Release date: 05-30-23 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 4 ratings Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In The Silver Women, Joan Flores-Villalobos argues that Black West Indian women made the Panama Canal construction possible by providing the indispensable everyday labor of social reproduction. West Indian women built a provisioning economy that fed, housed, and cared for the segregated Black West Indian labor force, in effect subsidizing the construction effort and the racial calculus that separated pay in silver for Black workers and gold for white Americans.