Women's Labor in the Global Economy : Speaking in Multiple Voices.
Globalization is not a new phenomenon; women throughout the world have been dealing with the circumstances and consequences of an international economy long before the advent of the transnational corporate conglomerate. However, in a mercenary example of the tried clich "the more things change,...
| Основен автор: | Harley, Sharon. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Piscataway :
Rutgers University Press,
2007.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=209088 |
Съдържание:
- Preface
- Introduction / Sharon Harley
- Laboring in transnational public spheres
- Race women: cultural productions and radical labor politics / Sharon Harley
- Of poetics and politics: the border journeys of Luisa Moreno / Vicki L. Ruiz
- Caring and inequality / Evelyn Nakano Glenn
- Economic crisis and political mobilization: reshaping cultures of resistance in Tampa's communities of color, 1929-1939 / Nancy A. Hewitt
- The global politics of labor
- Surviving globalization: immigrant women workers in late capitalist America / Evelyn Hu-Dehart
- Harassment of female farmworkers: can the legal system help? / Maria L. Ontiveros
- Caribbean women, domestic labor, and the politics of transnational migration / Carole Boyce Davies
- Creatively coping with crisis and globalization: Zimbabwean businesswomen in crocheting and knitting / Mary Johnson Osirim
- Surviving the global economy
- Of land and sea: women entrepreneurs in Negril, Jamaica / A. Lynn Bolles
- "My cocoa is between my legs": sex as working amont Ghanaian women / Akosua Adomako Ampofo
- Work as a duty and as a joy: understanding the role of work in the lives of Ghanaian female traders of global consumer items / Akosua K. Darkwah
- Gendering sugar: women's disempowerment in Sri Lankan sugar production / Nandini Gunewardena
- List of contributors
- Index.