edited by Gilbert G. Gonzalez , Raul Fernandez , Vivian
Price , David Smith , Linda Trinh Võ
Area: History
Publisher: Routledge
Pub Date: 06/2004
Pages: 320 pages
Size: 6 x 9
ISBN Cloth: 0415948142
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ISBN Paper: 0415948150
Edition: First
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About the Book
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.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Globalization Masking Imperialism and the Struggles from Below, Raul Fernandez,
Gilbert G. Gonzalez, Vivian Price, David Smith, Linda Trinh Võ
I. Empire:Global Capitalism and Domination
New Times, New Identities:Solidarities of Sameness and the Dynamics of
Difference, George Lipsitz
Labor, Race & Empire:Transport Workers & Transnational Empires
of Trade, Production, and Finance, Thomas E. Reifer
Latin America and the Empire of Global Capital, William I. Robinson
Empire and Labor:U.S. and Latin America, James Petras
Sexuality in the Marketplace, Bernard Useche, Amalia Lucia Cabezas
II. States:Immigration and Citizenship
Class, Space and the State in India:A Comparative Perspective on the Politics
of Empire, Leela Fernandes
Race, Labor and the State:The Quasi-Citizenship of Migrant Filipina Domestic
Workers, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
On the Border of Love and Money:Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican
Republic, Amalia Lucia Cabezas
Work, Immigrant Marginality, and 'Integration' in New Countries of Immigration:Déjà
Vu All Over Again?, Kitty Calavita
Culture, Power and Oil:The Experience of Venezuelan Oil Camps and the
Construction of Citizenship, Miguel Tinker Salas
III. Workers:Solidarity and Resistance
Empire(s), Strategies of Resistance and the Shanghai Labor Movement 1925-1927,
Wai Kit Choi
Crossing the Borders: Labor, Community and Colonialism in the Jaffa-Tel-Aviv
Region during the Mandate Period, Mark LeVine
Flexible Production and Industrial Restructuring in Hong Kong:From Boom
to Bust?, Stephen W.K. Chiu and Alvin Y. So
From the Third World to the Third World Within:Asian Women Workers Fighting
Globalization, Grace Chang
Can U.S. Workers Embrace Anti-Imperialism?:Trade Unionism & Anti-Imperialism
in the Current Situation, Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Imperial Political Economy and the War against the Mexican Countryside,
Victor Quintana
Appropriate Courses
US Labor History, American Immigration and Ethnicity, Labor Economics,
Political Science, Sociology, Ethnic Studies, Women's Studies.
