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UNINA9910791753403321 |
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Titolo |
Intimate labors [[electronic resource] ] : cultures, technologies, and the politics of care / / edited by Eileen Boris and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas |
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Stanford, Calif., : Stanford Social Sciences, 2010 |
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1 online resource (357 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BorisEileen <1948-> |
ParreñasRhacel Salazar |
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Women - Employment - Social aspects |
Intimacy (Psychology) - Economic aspects |
Interpersonal relations and culture |
Women employees - Labor unions |
Sex industry |
Work - Social aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Technologies of caring labor : from objects to affect / Ariel Ducey -- The transmission of care : affective economies and Indian call centers / Kalindi Vora -- Foreign and domestic : adoption, immigration, and privatization / Laura Briggs -- Selling genes, selling gender : egg agencies, sperm banks, and the medical market in genetic material / Rene Almeling -- Gender labor : transmen, femmes, and collective work of transgression / Jane Ward -- Traveling cultures of servitude : loyalty and betrayal in New York and Kolkata / Seemin Qayum and Raka Ray -- My reward is not money : deep alliances and the end of life care among Mexicana workers and their wards / Maria de la Luz Ibarra -- Cultures of flirtation : sex and the moral boundaries of Filipina migrant hostesses in Tokyo / Rhacel Parreñas -- Bounded authenticity and the commerce of sex / Elizabeth Bernstein -- Economies of emotion, familiarity, fantasy, and desire : emotional labor in Ho Chi Minh City's sex industry / Kimberly Kay Hoang -- Making home care : law and social policy in the U.S. welfare state / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein -- Power, intimacy, and contestation : Dorothy Bolden and domestic |
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worker organizing in Atlanta in the 1960s / Premilla Nadasen -- Manicuring intimacies : inequality and resistance in nail salon work / Millian Kang -- But who will care for the children? : organizing child care providers in the wake of welfare reform / Ellen Reese -- Sex and (evacuation from) the city : the moral and legal regulation of sex workers in Vancouver's West End, 1975-1985 / Becki Ross -- Caring everywhere / Viviana Zelizer -- More intimate unions / Dorothy Sue Cobble. |
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This book advances debates over the relationship between care and economy through the concept of intimate labor-care, domestic, and sex work-and thus charts relations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship in the context of global economic transformations. |
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UNINA9910791940503321 |
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Corporate power and globalization in US foreign policy / / edited by Ronald W. Cox |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
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1-136-32842-4 |
1-280-66520-3 |
9786613642134 |
0-203-12161-9 |
1-136-32843-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (233 p.) |
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Routledge studies in US foreign policy |
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Corporations - Political activity - United States |
Business and politics - United States - History |
United States Foreign relations 1989- |
United States Foreign relations Economic aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Corporate Power and Globalization in US Foreign Policy; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Preface: Rethinking the State |
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and "free markets" inneoliberalism; Introduction: corporate power and the threat to democracy; 1. Corporate finance and US foreign policy; 2. Transnational capital and the US-China nexus; 3. The foreign policy of organized labor in the context of globalization; 4. The corporate centrism of the Obama administration; 5. The military-industrial complex in a globalized context; 6. Financialization, corporate power, and South African subimperialism |
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More than a decade into the new millennium, the fusion of corporate and state power is the essential defining feature of US foreign policy. This edited volume critically examines the relationship between corporations and the US state in the development of foreign policies related to globalization. Drawing together a wide range of contributors, this work explores the role of corporations in using US foreign policies to advance the interests of transnational capital in a wide range of contexts, including:how US government policies have contributed to the globalization of pr |
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