Table of Contents: Women's labor in the global economy

Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors:	Harley, Sharon.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.
Subjects:	Minority women > Employment Women foreign workers. Minority women > Economic conditions. Minority women > Social conditions.
Online Access:	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10202538

Table of Contents:

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.