Format:
1 online resource (286 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780203327180
Content:
The essays in this collection address issues significant to labor within regional, national and international contexts. Themes of the chapters will focus on managed labor migration; organizing in multi-ethnic and multi-national contexts; global economics and labor; global economics and inequality; gender and labor; racism and globalization; regional trade agreements and labor.
Content:
Cover -- LABOR VERSUS EMPIRE: RACE, GENDER, AND MIGRATION -- Copyright -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: Globalization: Masking Imperialism and the Struggles from Below -- I Empire: Global Capitalism and Domination -- 1 New Times and New Identities: Solidarities of Sameness and Dynamics of Difference -- 2 Labor, Race, and Empire: Transport Workers and Transnational Empires of Trade, Production, and Finance -- 3 Latin America and the Empire of Global Capital -- 4 Empire and Labor: U.S. and Latin America -- 5 Sexuality in the Marketplace -- II States: Immigration and Citizenship -- 6 Class, Space, and the State in India: A Comparative Perspective on the Politics of Empire -- 7 Race, Labor, and the State: The Quasi-Citizenship of Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers -- 8 On the Border of Love and Money: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic -- 9 Work, Immigrant Marginality, and 'Integration' in New Countries of Immigration: Déjà Vu All Over Again? -- 10 Culture, Power, and Oil: The Experience of Venezuelan Oil Camps and the Construction of Citizenship -- III Workers: Solidarity and Resistance -- 11 Empire, Strategies of Resistance, and the Shanghai Labor Movement, 1925-1927 -- 12 Crossing the Borders: Labor, Community, and Colonialism in the Jaffa-Tel Aviv Region during the Mandate Period -- 13 Flexible Production and Industrial Restructuring in Hong Kong: From Boom to Bust? -- 14 From the Third World to the "Third World Within": Asian Women Workers Fighting Globalization -- 15 Can U.S. Workers Embrace Anti-Imperialism? -- 16 Why the Mexican Rural Sector Can't Take It Anymore -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415948142
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415948142
Language:
English
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