Marketing Dreams, Manufacturing Heroes : The Transnational Labor Brokering of Filipino Workers /

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In Marketing Dreams, Manufacturing Heroes Anna Romina Guevarra focuses on the Philippinesùwhich views itself as the "home of the great Filipino worker"ùand the multilevel brokering process that manages and sends workers worldwide. The experience of Filipino nurses and domestic workersùt...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guevarra, Anna Romina, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Foreign workers, Filipino.
Filipinos > Employment > Foreign countries.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Travailleurs etrangers philippins.
Philippins > Travail > Pays etrangers.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Home of the great Filipino worker
  • Cultivating a Filipino ethos of labor migration
  • Governing and (dis)empowering Filipino migrants
  • Delivering "our contribution to the world"
  • Selling Filipinas' added export value
  • Living the dream
  • Securing their added export value.

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