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- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Preface vii
- Introduction 1
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Part I. Laboring in Transnational Public Spheres
- Race Women: Cultural Productions and Radical Labor Politics 9
- Of Poetics and Politics: The Border Journeys of Luisa Moreno 28
- Caring and Inequality 46
- Economic Crisis and Political Mobilization: Reshaping Cultures of Resistance in Tampa’s Communities of Color, 1929—1939 62
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Part II. The Global Politics of Labor
- Surviving Globalization: Immigrant Women Workers in Late Capitalist America 85
- Harassment of Female Farmworkers: Can the Legal System Help? 103
- Caribbean Women, Domestic Labor, and the Politics of Transnational Migration 116
- Creatively Coping with Crisis and Globalization: Zimbabwean Businesswomen in Crocheting and Knitting 134
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Part III. Surviving the Global Economy
- Of Land and Sea: Women Entrepreneurs in Negril, Jamaica 161
- “My Cocoa Is between My Legs”: Sex as Work among Ghanaian Women 182
- Work as a Duty and as a Joy: Understanding the Role of Work in the Lives of Ghanaian Female Traders of Global Consumer Items 206
- Gendering Sugar: Women’s Disempowerment in Sri Lankan Sugar Production 221
- Contributors 247
- Index 253
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Preface vii
- Introduction 1
-
Part I. Laboring in Transnational Public Spheres
- Race Women: Cultural Productions and Radical Labor Politics 9
- Of Poetics and Politics: The Border Journeys of Luisa Moreno 28
- Caring and Inequality 46
- Economic Crisis and Political Mobilization: Reshaping Cultures of Resistance in Tampa’s Communities of Color, 1929—1939 62
-
Part II. The Global Politics of Labor
- Surviving Globalization: Immigrant Women Workers in Late Capitalist America 85
- Harassment of Female Farmworkers: Can the Legal System Help? 103
- Caribbean Women, Domestic Labor, and the Politics of Transnational Migration 116
- Creatively Coping with Crisis and Globalization: Zimbabwean Businesswomen in Crocheting and Knitting 134
-
Part III. Surviving the Global Economy
- Of Land and Sea: Women Entrepreneurs in Negril, Jamaica 161
- “My Cocoa Is between My Legs”: Sex as Work among Ghanaian Women 182
- Work as a Duty and as a Joy: Understanding the Role of Work in the Lives of Ghanaian Female Traders of Global Consumer Items 206
- Gendering Sugar: Women’s Disempowerment in Sri Lankan Sugar Production 221
- Contributors 247
- Index 253