| Description |
vi, 328 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Barbara Ehrenreich, Arlie Russell Hochschild -- Love and gold / Arlie Russell Hochschild -- The nanny dilemma / Susan Cheever -- The care crisis in the Philippines: children and transnational families in the new global economy / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas -- Blowups and other unhappy endings / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo -- Invisible labors: caring for the independent person / Lynn May Rivas -- Maid to order / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Just another job? The commodification of domestic labor / Bridget Anderson -- Filipina workers in Hong Kong homes: household rules and relations / Nicole Constable -- America's dirty work: migrant maids and modern-day slavery / Joy M. Zarembka -- Selling sex for visas: sex tourism as a stepping stone to international migration / Denise Brennan -- Among women: migrant domestics and their Taiwanese employers across generations / Pei-Chia Lan -- Breadwinner no more / Michele Gamburd -- Because she looks like a child / Kevin Bales -- Clashing dreams: highly educated overseas brides and low-wage U.S. husbands / Hung Cam Thai -- Global cities and survival circuits / Saskia Sassen -- Migration trends: maps and chart / Robert Espinoza -- Appendix: Activist organizations |
| Summary |
In a world shaped by mass migration and economic exchange on an ever- increasing scale, women are moving around the globe as never before. This anthology examines the unexplored consequences of globalization on the lives of women worldwide |
| Analysis |
Labour economics |
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Women's studies |
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Globalisation |
| Notes |
Originally published: New York : Metropolitan Books, 2002 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 317-324 |
| Subject |
Brothels.
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Women immigrants -- Employment.
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Women household employees.
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Women foreign workers.
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Women -- Employment.
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Minority women -- Employment.
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Nannies.
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Prostitution.
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| Author |
Ehrenreich, Barbara.
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Hochschild, Arlie Russell, 1940-
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| ISBN |
1862075883 paperback |
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