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Women's Labor in the Global Economy: Speaking in Multiple Voices
Edited by Sharon Harley
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Winner of the 2007 Association of Black Women Historians Best Anthology Award Globalization 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.
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Publisher | Rutgers University Press
Published date | 5 Jun 2007
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 288
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 397g
ISBN | 978-0-8135-4044-3
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BISAC | business & economics / labor
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