Women's Labor in the Global Economy : : Speaking in Multiple Voices /

Women's Labor in the Global Economy : : Speaking in Multiple Voices / / ed. by Sharon Harley.

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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,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Ampofo, Akosua Adomako,
Bolles, A. Lynn,
Darkwah, Akosua K.,
Davies, Carole Boyce,
Glenn, Evelyn Nakano,
Gunewardena, Nandini,
Harley, Sharon,
Hewitt, Nancy A.,
Hu-Dehart, Evelyn,
Ontiveros, Maria L.,
Osirim, Mary Johnson,
Ruiz, Vicki L.,
HerausgeberIn:
Harley, Sharon,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Laboring in Transnational Public Spheres
  • Race Women: Cultural Productions and Radical Labor Politics
  • Of Poetics and Politics: The Border Journeys of Luisa Moreno
  • Caring and Inequality
  • Economic Crisis and Political Mobilization: Reshaping Cultures of Resistance in Tampa's Communities of Color, 1929-1939
  • Part II. The Global Politics of Labor
  • Surviving Globalization: Immigrant Women Workers in Late Capitalist America
  • Harassment of Female Farmworkers: Can the Legal System Help?
  • Caribbean Women, Domestic Labor, and the Politics of Transnational Migration
  • Creatively Coping with Crisis and Globalization: Zimbabwean Businesswomen in Crocheting and Knitting
  • Part III. Surviving the Global Economy
  • Of Land and Sea: Women Entrepreneurs in Negril, Jamaica
  • "My Cocoa Is between My Legs": Sex as Work among Ghanaian Women
  • Work as a Duty and as a Joy: Understanding the Role of Work in the Lives of Ghanaian Female Traders of Global Consumer Items
  • Gendering Sugar: Women's Disempowerment in Sri Lankan Sugar Production
  • Contributors
  • Index

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