Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-293) and index.
Contents
Seeing Global Change -- An Introduction to Work, Gender, and Protest -- Worker Households, Businesses, and States -- The Meaning of Work -- The Changing World of Work -- The Redistribution and Reorganization of Work in the Core -- The Submerging Periphery -- Reverses in the Semiperiphery -- Welfare States Cut Worker Benefits -- The Changing Ground for Working Households -- Households, Class Transformations, and the Emergence of Women-Centered Labor Movements -- The Degradation of Social and Natural Work Environments -- Change and Protest -- Institutional Struggles: Female and Male Workers Challenge Business -- Institutional Struggles: Workers Challenge States -- Diversifying Struggles: Redefining Work and Society -- Fast Forward.