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Looking south : race, gender, and the transformation of labor from reconstruction to globalization /
In the United States, cheap products made by cheap labor are in especially high demand, purchased by men and women who have watched their own wages decline and jobs disappear. 'Looking South' examines the effects of race, class, and gender in the development of the low-wage, anti-union, an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gainesville, Fla. :
University Press of Florida,
2011.
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| Colección: | Southern dissent.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : labor transformation and networks of resistance
- Labor, race, and Homer Plessy's freedom claim
- Transformation and resistance : a war of images in the post-Plessy south
- "I got so mad, I just had to get something off my chest" : the contested terrain of women's organizations in the American south
- Beyond heroines and girl strikers : gender and organized labor in the south
- Labor looks south : theory and practice in southern textile organizing
- "Living in two worlds" : civil rights and southern textiles
- Transformation and resistance in the nueva new south
- Back to the future : mapping workers across the global south
- Coda : southern workers on the world stage.