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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harley, Sharon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Minority women > Employment > Case studies.
Women foreign workers.
Minority women > Economic conditions.
Minority women > Social conditions.
Globalization.
Femmes issues des minorités > Travail > Études de cas.
Travailleuses étrangères.
Femmes issues des minorités > Conditions économiques.
Femmes issues des minorités > Conditions sociales.
Mondialisation.
globalism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Globalization
Minority women > Economic conditions
Minority women > Employment
Minority women > Social conditions
Women foreign workers
Frauenarbeit
Globalisierung
Förvärvsarbete.
Migration.
Globalt perspektiv.
Levnadsförhållanden.
Ekonomisk ställning.
women workers.
migrant workers.
ethnic group.
employment.
entrepreneur.
history.
globalization.
rural women.
sex worker.
informal economy.
unpaid work.
sex discrimination.
racial discrimination.
travailleuses.
travailleur migrant.
groupe ethnique.
emploi.
histoire.
mondialisation.
femmes rurales.
travailleur de l'industrie du sexe.
économie informelle.
travail non rémunéré
discrimination fondée sur le sexe.
discrimination raciale.
trabajadoras.
trabajador migrante.
grupo étnico.
empleo.
empresario.
historia.
globalización.
mujeres rurales.
trabajador de la industria del sexo.
economía informal.
trabajo no remunerado.
discriminación por razones de sexo.
discriminación racial.
developing countries.
pays en développement.
países en desarrollo.
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 among 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.

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