02966nam a2200421 a 4500 ebr10202538 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 060824s2007 nju sb s001 0 eng 2006027315 GBA754429 bnb 013790335 Uk 0813540437 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813540436 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0813540445 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780813540443 (pbk. : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)647686410 HD6057 .W66 2007eb 331.408 22 83.65 bcl Women's labor in the global economy [electronic resource] : speaking in multiple voices / edited by Sharon Harley. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007. ix, 265 p. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Minority women Employment Case studies. Women foreign workers. Minority women Economic conditions. Minority women Social conditions. Globalization. Electronic books. local Harley, Sharon. ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10202538 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 222221 222221