Women's
Labor in the Global Economy
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Subtitle: Speaking in Multiple Voices
Editor: Sharon Harley
Subject: Women's Studies / Labor Studies
Paper ISBN 0-8135-4044-5
Cloth ISBN 0-8135-4043-7
Pages: 288 pages
Publication Date: July 2007
Winner of the Black Women Historians 2007
best anthology award
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Praise for Women's Labor in the Global Economy
"This important collection examines the ways in which women
across the globe, individually and collectively, are responding to new
economic pressures and historical circumstances that are shaping their
lives."-Alice Kessler-Harris, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American
History, Columbia University
"From New York to Tampa, over the border into Mexico and
across the seas to Africa, these essays complicate our understanding of
women's labors and the workings of race, gender, class, sex, and nation
in new and
surprising ways." -Eileen Boris, Hull Professor of Women's Studies,
University of California, Santa Barbara
Description:
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.
About the Author:
Sharon Harley is an associate professor and chair
of the African American studies department at the University of
Maryland.
Contributors include Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Lynn Bolles,
Akosua Darkwah, Carol Boyce Davies, Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Nandini
Gunewardena, Sharon Harley, Nancy Hewitt, Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Maria
Ontiveros, Mary Johnson Osirim, and Vicki Ruiz
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