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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harley, Sharon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minority women--Employment--Case studies.

Minority women.

Women foreign workers.

Minority women--Economic conditions.

Minority women--Social conditions.

Globalization.

Minority women--Employment.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

ix, 265 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

Globalization is not a new phenomenon; women throughout the world have been dealing with circumstances and consequences of an international economy long before the advent of the transnational corporate conglomerate. However, in a mercenary example of the tired cliche "the more things change, the more they stay the same," women-particularly those of color-continue to be relegated to the lowest rung of the occupational ladder, where their indispensable contributions to global market capitalism are downplayed or invalidated completely through the perpetuation of stereotypes and the denial of access to better job opportunities and resources.

How women of color around the world adapt and challenge the economic, political, and social effects of globalization is the subject of this broad-minded and incisive anthology. From Mexico, Jamaica, Ghana, Zimbabwe, and Sri Lanka, to immigrant and non-immigrant communities in the United States-the women documented in these essays are agricultural and factory workers, artists and entrepreneurs, mothers and activists. Their stories bear stark witness to how globalization continues to develop new sites and forms of exploitation, but also to moments of resistance and potential avenues for social change.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813540437

9780813540436

0813540445

9780813540443

OCLC:

71189706