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  • Solidarity Transformed

    Labor Responses to Globalization and Crisis in Latin America

    by Mark S. Anner ...
    Mark S. Anner spent ten years working with labor unions in Latin America and returned to conduct eighteen months of field research: he found himself in the middle of violent raids, was detained and interrogated in a Salvadoran basement prison cell, and survived a bombing in a union cafeteria. This experience as a participant observer informs and enlivens Solidarity Transformed, an illustrative, ... Read more

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    Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy

    Edited by Barbara Ehrenreich, Arlie Russell Hochschild ...
    In a remarkable pairing, two renowned social critics offer a groundbreaking anthology that examines the unexplored consequences of globalization on the lives of women worldwideWomen are moving around the globe as never before. But for every female executive racking up frequent flier miles, there are multitudes of women whose journeys go unnoticed. Each year, millions leave Mexico, Sri Lanka, the ... Read more

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  • The Rise of the Outsiders

    How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way

    by Steve Richards ...
    Something strange has been happening. All over the world, people are angry and rejecting the establishment like never before. Britain votes Brexit. Trump promises walls in America. Corbyn promises a new socialism in the UK. Tsipras in Greece. Podemos in Spain. Marine Le Pen in France. Norbert Hofer in Austria. The list goes on. Why has the mainstream lost support? Why are the outsiders flourishing ... Read more

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  • A Precariat Charter

    From Denizens to Citizens

    by Prof. Guy Standing ...
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Guy Standing's immensely influential 2011 book introduced the Precariat as an emerging mass class, characterized by inequality and insecurity. Standing outlined the increasingly global nature of the Precariat as a social phenomenon, especially in the light of the ... Read more

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  • The Right to Stay Home

    How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration

    by David Bacon ...
    The story of the growing resistance of Mexican communities to the poverty that forces people to migrate to the United StatesPeople across Mexico are being forced into migration, and while 11 percent of that country’s population lives north of the US border, the decision to migrate is rarely voluntary. Free trade agreements and economic policies that exacerbate and reinforce extreme wealth ... Read more

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  • The Chicken Trail

    Following Workers, Migrants, and Corporations across the Americas

    by Kathleen C. Schwartzman ...
    In The Chicken Trail, Kathleen C. Schwartzman examines the impact of globalization—and of NAFTA in particular—on the North American poultry industry, focusing on the displacement of African American workers in the southeast United States and workers in Mexico. Schwartzman documents how the transformation of U.S. poultry production in the 1980s increased its export capacity and changed the nature ... Read more

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  • Victims of the Chilean Miracle

    Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973–2002

    by Paul W. Drake, Volker K. Frank ...
    Chile was the first major Latin American nation to carry out a complete neoliberal transformation. Its policies—encouraging foreign investment, privatizing public sector companies and services, lowering trade barriers, reducing the size of the state, and embracing the market as a regulator of both the economy and society—produced an economic boom that some have hailed as a “miracle” to be emulated ... Read more

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  • Fast Boat to China

    Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade; Lessons from Shanghai

    by Andrew Ross ...
    Most Americans today are aware that jobs are being outsourced to China, India, and other nations at an alarming rate. From factory jobs to white-collar, high-tech positions, the exporting of labor is one of the most controversial issues in America.Yet few people know much about the other end — about the people who are actually working these jobs and how their own lives have been throw into tumult ... Read more

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  • Bananeras

    Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America

    by Dana Frank ...
    This story of Latina labor organizers is "a vital accounting of the struggles still being waged" (Margaret Randall, author of When I Look Into the Mirror and See You: Women, Terror, and Resistance).Women who pick and pack bananas in Latin America have organized themselves and gained increasing control over their unions, their workplaces, and their lives—while making gender equity central in their ... Read more

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  • Virtual Migration

    The Programming of Globalization

    by A. Aneesh ...
    Workers in India program software applications, transcribe medical dictation online, chase credit card debtors, and sell mobile phones, diet pills, and mortgages for companies based in other countries around the world. While their skills and labor migrate abroad, these workers remain Indian citizens, living and working in India. A. Aneesh calls this phenomenon “virtual migration,” and in this ... Read more

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  • Global Unions, Local Power

    The New Spirit of Transnational Labor Organizing

    by Jamie K. McCallum ...
    News about labor unions is usually pessimistic, focusing on declining membership and failed campaigns. But there are encouraging signs that the labor movement is evolving its strategies to benefit workers in rapidly changing global economic conditions. Global Unions, Local Power tells the story of the most successful and aggressive campaign ever waged by workers across national borders. It begins ... Read more

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  • Utopia Unarmed

    The Latin American Left After the Cold War

    by Jorge G. Castañeda ...
    Castro's Cuba is isolated; the guerrillas who once spread havoc through Uruguay and Argentina are dead, dispersed, or running for office as moderates. And in 1990, Nicaragua's Sandinistas were rejected at the polls by their own constituents. Are these symptoms of the fall of the Latin American left? Or are they merely temporary lulls in an ongoing revolution that may yet transform our hemisphere ... Read more

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