Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance

Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance
Author: Ligaya Lindio-McGovern
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1136644628

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Moving beyond polemical debates on globalization, this study considers complex intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality and class within the field of globalized labor. As a significant contribution to the on-going debate on the role of neoliberal states in reproducing gender-race-class inequality in the global political economy, the volume examines the aggressive implementation of neoliberal policies of globalization in the Philippines, and how labor export has become a contradictory feature of the country's international political economy while being contested from below. Lindio-McGovern presents theoretical and ethnographic insights from observational and interview data gathered during fieldwork in various global cities—Hong Kong, Taipei, Rome, Vancouver, Chicago and Metro-Manila. The result is a compelling weave of theory and experience of exploitation and resistance, an important development in discourses and literature on globalization and social movements seeking to influence regimes that exploit migrant women as cheap labor to sustain gendered global capitalism. Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance: A Study of Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers in Global Cities, is an invaluable resource for scholars, researchers, policy makers, non-governmental organizations, community organizers, students of globalization, trade and labor politics. It will be useful in the fields of women/gender studies, labor studies, transnational social movements, political economy, development, international migration, international studies, international fieldwork and qualitative/feminist research.

Globalization and Patterns of Labour Resistance

Globalization and Patterns of Labour Resistance
Author: Jeremy Waddington
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1999
Genre: Competition, International
ISBN: 9780720123692

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First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Jobs & Justice

Jobs & Justice
Author: Asia-Pacific Research Network. Conference
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2007
Genre: Employee rights
ISBN:

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Labor and Capital in the Age of Globalization

Labor and Capital in the Age of Globalization
Author: Berch Berberoglu
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780742516618

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Ten contributions from scholars and activists discuss the political economy of the labor process in the age of global capitalism, examining how the global economy effects ordinary people in the workplace. Topics include, for example, the struggle for control at the point of production, the division of labor along racial lines in U.S. agriculture, and women and resistance in the transnational labor force. Editor Berberoglu teaches sociology at the U. of Nevada, Reno. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Globalisation,, Knowledge and Labour

Globalisation,, Knowledge and Labour
Author: Mario Novelli
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2009-12-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135202958

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Knowledge is playing an important role in the development of contemporary capitalism. This book addresses the questions such as: how labour movements learn, and what strategies they deploy to defend their interests.

Globalization and Labor Conditions

Globalization and Labor Conditions
Author: Robert J. Flanagan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2006-07-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0195306007

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"Globalization and Labor Conditions explains how the three main mechanisms of globalization - trade, international migration, and international capital flows - alter working conditions (particularly wages, work hours, and job safety) and labor rights (freedom of association, nondiscrimination, and the elimination of forced and child labor). An important subtheme is the relative importance of international markets and international regulation in providing improvements in labor conditions around the world. Robert Flanagan draws on analyses from his own database on international labor conditions assembled for this project and research on globalization and labor conditions. The book presents evidence on how conditions changed during late 20th-century globalization, and on how economic growth, international trade, migration, and multinational companies influence labor conditions."--BOOK JACKET.

Globalization and Third World Women

Globalization and Third World Women
Author: Ligaya Lindio-McGovern
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2016-04-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317126947

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Adopting the notion of 'third world' as a political as well as a geographical category, this volume analyzes marginalized women's experiences of globalization. It unravels the intersections of race, culture, ethnicity, nationality and class which have shaped the position of these women in the global political economy, their cultural and their national history. In addition to a thematically structured and highly informative investigation, the authors offer an exploration of the policy implications which are commonly neglected in mainstream literature. The result is a must have volume for sociological academics, social policy experts and professionals working within non-governmental organizations.

Forces of Labor

Forces of Labor
Author: Beverly J. Silver
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2003-04-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521520775

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Free Trade and Transnational Labour

Free Trade and Transnational Labour
Author: Andreas Bieler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2016-04-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317678656

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Resistance against free trade agreements based on an expanded trade agenda, including issues related to intellectual property rights, trade in services and trade-related investment measures, has increased since the demonstrations at the WTO ministerial conference in Seattle in 1999. While the WTO Doha negotiations have broken down, the EU and USA are increasingly engaged in bilateral free trade agreements, building on this expanded trade agenda. Free trade strategies have increasingly become a problem for the international labour movement. While trade unions in the North, especially in manufacturing, have supported free trade agreements to secure export markets for their companies, trade unions in the Global South oppose these agreements, since they often imply deindustrialisation. The purpose of this volume is to understand better these dynamics underlying free trade policy-making. Academics, trade union researchers and social movement activists analyse these issues in detail in order to explore possibilities for transnational labour solidarity. This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Protecting the Rights of Women Migrant Domestic Workers

Protecting the Rights of Women Migrant Domestic Workers
Author: Sophie Henderson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2022-02-09
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1000539695

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Migrant women across Asia disproportionately work in precarious, insecure, and informal employment sectors that are subject to few regulations, pay low wages, and expose women to harm, of which domestic work is among the most prevalent. This book uses the cases of the Philippines and Sri Lanka to develop a comprehensive, intersectional, rights-based approach to better protect women migrant domestic workers against exploitation. As accounts of exploitation, gender-based violence, torture, and death among migrant domestic workers increase, the recognition and defence of their human and labour rights is an urgent necessity. The Philippines and Sri Lanka are two of the leading labour-sending states of women domestic workers in Asia, and their economies have become increasingly dependent on the remittances they send back home. Drawing on extensive original research this book argues that these two sending states are guilty of structural violence by sustaining a network of institutions, policies and practices, which serve to systematically disadvantage and discriminate against women migrant domestic workers. The research covers the entire migration process, from pre-departure, through to overseas employment, followed by return and reintegration. This book’s innovative application of structural violence theory as a way to investigate the role of state institutions in labour-sending countries in the Global South will be of interest to researchers from across the fields of migration studies, gender studies, human rights law, and Asian Studies.