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Globalization is not a new phenomenon; women throughout the world have been dealing with the circumstances and consequences of an international economy long before the advent of the transnational corporate conglomerate. However, in a mercenary example of the tried clich "the more things change, the more they stay the same," women-particularly those of color-continue to be relegated to the lowest rung of the occupational ladder, where their indispensable contributions to global market capitalism are downplayed or invalidated completely through the perpetuation of stereotypes and the denial of access to better job opportunities and resources. How women of color around the world adapt and challenge the economic, political, and social effects of globalization is the subject of this broad-minded and incisive anthology. From Mexico, Jamaica, Ghana, Zimbabwe, and Sri Lanka, to immigrant and non-immigrant communities in the United States-the women documented in these essays are agricultural and factory workers, artists and entrepreneurs, mothers and activists. Their stories bear stark witness to how globalization continues to develop new sites and forms of exploitation, while its apparent victims continue to be women, men, and children of color. Intro -- Preface -- Introduction: Sharon Harley -- PART I: Laboring In Transnational Public Spheres -- Race Women: Cultural Productions and Radical Labor Politics -- Of Poetics and Politics: The Border Journeys of Luisa Moreno -- Caring and Inequality -- Economic Crisis and Political Mobilization: Reshaping Cultures of Resistance in Tampa's Communities of Color, 1929-1939 -- PART II: The Global Politics of Labor -- Surviving Globalization: Immigrant Women Workers in Late Capitalist America -- Harassment of Female Farmworkers: Can the Legal System Help? -- Caribbean Women, Domestic Labor, and the Politics of Transnational Migration -- Creatively Coping with Crisis and Globalization: Zimbabwean Businesswomen in Crocheting and Knitting -- PART III: Surviving the Global Economy -- Of Land and Sea: Women Entrepreneurs in Negril, Jamaica -- "My Cocoa Is Between My Legs": Sex as Work among Ghanaian Women -- Work as a Duty and as a Joy: Understanding the Role of Work in the Lives of Ghanaian Female Traders of Global Consumer Items -- Gendering Sugar: Women's Disempowerment in Sri Lankan Sugar Production -- List of Contributors -- Index.
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