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Title Gendering struggles against informal and precarious work / edited by Rina Agarwalla and Jennifer Jihye Chun
Published Bingley : Emerald Publishing, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Series Political power and social theory ; volume 35
Political power and social theory ; v. 35.
Contents Gendering struggles against informal and precarious work / Rina Agarwala and Jennifer Jihye Chun -- From theory to praxis and back to theory: informal workers' struggles against capitalism and patriarchy in India / Rina Agarwala -- Low-wage worker organizing and advocacy in the USA: comparing domestic workers and day laborers / Ruth Milkman -- Masculine vulnerabilities: the double bind of manhood in global migration / SaunJuhi Verma -- Organizing Filipina domestic workers in Vancouver, Canada: gendered geographies and community mobilization / Geraldine Pratt with Migrante BC -- Intersectional histories, overdetermined fortunes: understanding Mexican and US domestic worker movements / Chris Tilly, Georgina Rojas-Garcia and Nik Theodore -- Feminist entanglements with the neoliberal welfare state: NGOs and domestic worker organizing in South Korea / Jennifer Jihye Chun and Yang-Sook Kim
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Women -- Employment.
Sex discrimination in employment.
Construction industry -- Employees.
Women construction workers.
Women household employees.
Sex role in the work environment.
construction workers.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Construction industry -- Employees
Sex discrimination in employment
Sex role in the work environment
Women construction workers
Women -- Employment
Women household employees
Form Electronic book
Author Agarwalla, Rina, editor
Chun, Jennifer Jihye, 1973- editor.
ISBN 9781787693678
1787693678