Global woman : nannies, maids, and sex workers in the new economy / Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ehrenreich, Barbara.

Hochschild, Arlie Russell, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women household employees.

Women foreign workers.

Women--Employment.

Women.

Minority women--Employment.

Minority women.

Nannies.

Prostitution.

Physical Description:

vi, 328 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First Owl Books edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Metropolitan/Owl Books, 2004.

Summary:

In a remarkable pairing, two renowned social critics offer a groundbreaking anthology that examines the unexplored consequences of globalization on the lives of women worldwide. Women are moving around the globe as never before. But for every female executive racking up frequent flier miles, there are multitudes of women whose journeys go unnoticed. Each year, millions leave Mexico, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and other third world countries to work in the homes, nurseries, and brothels of the first world. This broad-scale transfer of labor associated with women's traditional roles results in an odd displacement. In the new global calculus, the female energy that flows to wealthy countries is subtracted from poor ones, often to the detriment of the families left behind. The migrant nanny--or cleaning woman, nursing care attendant, maid--eases a "care deficit" in rich countries, while her absence creates a "care deficit" back home. Confronting a range of topics, from the fate of Vietnamese mail-order brides to the importation of Mexican nannies in Los Angeles and the selling of Thai girls to Japanese brothels, "Global woman offers an unprecedented look at a world shaped by mass migration and economic exchange on an ever-increasing scale. In fifteen vivid essays--of which only four have been previously published--by a diverse and distinguished group of writers, collected and introduced by best selling authors Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, this anthology reveals a new era in which the main resource extracted from the third world is no longer gold or silver, but love.

Contents:

Love and gold / Arlie Russell Hochschild

The nanny dilemma / Susan Cheever

The care crisis in the Philippines : children and transnational families in the new global economy / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas

Blowups and other unhappy endings / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

Invisible labors : caring for the independent person / Lynn May Rivas

Maid to order / Barbara Ehrenreich

Just another job? : the commodification of domestic labor / Bridget Anderson

Filipina workers in Hong Kong homes : household rules and relations / Nicole Constable

America's dirty work : migrant maids and modern-day slavery / Joy M. Zarembka

Selling sex for visas : sex tourism as a stepping-stone to international migration / Denise Brennan

Among women : migrant domestics and their Taiwanese employers across generations / Pei-Chia Lan

Breadwinner no more / Michele Gamburd

Because she looks like a child / Kevin Bales

Clashing dreams : highly educated overseas brides and low-wage U.S. husbands / Hung Cam Thai

Global cities and survival circuits / Saskia Sassen

Migration trends : maps and chart / Robert Espinoza

Appendix: Activist organizations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-324).

ISBN:

0805075097

9780805075090

OCLC:

54106798

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