Marketing dreams, manufacturing heroes
Subtitle: the transnational labor brokering of filipino workers
By: Anna Romina Guevarra.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780813546339; 9780813546346
Subjects: Filipinos -- Employment -- Foreign countries; Alien labor, Philippine
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Home of the great Filipino worker; title: Cultivating a Filipino ethos of labor migration; title: Governing and (dis)empowering Filipino migrants; title: Delivering "our contribution to the world" (OCW); title: Selling Filipinas' added export value; title: Living the dream; title: Securing their added export value.