Globalization, labor export and resistance
Subtitle: a study of Filipino migrant domestic workers in global cities
By: Ligaya Lindio-McGovern
Series: Rethinking globalizations -- 32
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780415603799; 9780203804940
Subjects: Globalization; Women foreign workers; Social aspects; Economic aspects; Political activity; Women household employees
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Globalization, labor export and resistance: rethinking neoliberal globalization from below; title: Circuits of the commodifcation of Filipino domestic workers in the labor export web of globalization; title: Circuits of resistance to labor export in the context of globalization; title: Resistance in Hong Kong; title: Resistance in Taiwan; title: Resistance in Vancouver; title: Resistance in Rome; title: Resistance and non-resistance in Chicago; title: Resistance in the homefront: the labor-sending country; title: Conclusion: from retrospect to prospects, from theory to policy.