Women's labor in the global economy : speaking in multiple voices /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Harley, Sharon
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2007]
Subjects:	Globalization. Minority women > Social conditions. Minority women > Economic conditions. Women foreign workers. Minority women > Employment > Case studies. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.