LEADER 04846nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910453973203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-09261-4 010 $a9786611092610 010 $a0-8135-4165-4 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813541655 035 $a(CKB)1000000000688942 035 $a(EBL)320727 035 $a(OCoLC)476118262 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000313539 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11233303 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000313539 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10358329 035 $a(PQKB)10351948 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC320727 035 $a(OCoLC)647686410 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8237 035 $a(DE-B1597)529342 035 $a(OCoLC)1119109164 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813541655 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL320727 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10202538 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL109261 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000688942 100 $a20060824d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aWomen's labor in the global economy$b[electronic resource] $espeaking in multiple voices /$fedited by Sharon Harley 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (278 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-4043-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface -- 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. 330 $aGlobalization is not a new phenomenon; women throughout the world have been dealing with the circumstances and consequences of an international economy long before the advent of the transnational corporate conglomerate. However, in a mercenary example of the tried clich "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, while its apparent victims continue to be women, men, and children of color. 606 $aMinority women$xEmployment$vCase studies 606 $aWomen foreign workers 606 $aMinority women$xEconomic conditions 606 $aMinority women$xSocial conditions 606 $aGlobalization 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMinority women$xEmployment 615 0$aWomen foreign workers. 615 0$aMinority women$xEconomic conditions. 615 0$aMinority women$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aGlobalization. 676 $a331.408 686 $a83.65$2bcl 701 $aHarley$b Sharon$01029994 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453973203321 996 $aWomen's labor in the global economy$92446692 997 $aUNINA