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Title Women's labor in the global economy : speaking in multiple voices / edited by Sharon Harley.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description ix, 265 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Minority women -- Employment -- Case studies.
Women foreign workers.
Minority women -- Economic conditions.
Minority women -- Social conditions.
Globalization.
Globalization. (OCoLC)fst00943532
Minority women -- Economic conditions. (OCoLC)fst01023420
Minority women -- Employment. (OCoLC)fst01023423
Minority women -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01023432
Women foreign workers. (OCoLC)fst01734121
Frauenarbeit.
Globalisierung.
Femmes issues des minorités -- Conditions sociales.
Femmes issues des minorités -- Conditions économiques.
Femmes issues des minorités -- Travail -- Cas, Études de.
Mondialisation.
Travailleuses étrangères.
Frauenarbeit. (DE-588)4018210-1
Globalisierung. (DE-588)4557997-0
Förvärvsarbete.
Migration.
Globalt perspektiv.
Levnadsförhållanden.
Ekonomisk ställning.
Genre/Form Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
Added Author Harley, Sharon.
Other Form: Online version: Women's labor in the global economy. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007 (OCoLC)608549861
ISBN 0813540437 (hardcover) (alk. paper)
9780813540436 (hardcover) (alk. paper)
0813540445 (pbk.) (alk. paper)
9780813540443 (pbk.) (alk. paper)
9780813543
9789780813543
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