Global ethnography
Subtitle: forces, connections, and imaginations in a postmodern world
By: Michael Burawoy ... [et al.].
Contributors: Burawoy, Michael.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Ethnology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-373) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Reaching for the global / Michael Burawoy; title: Global discourses of need : mythologizing and pathologizing welfare in Hungary / Lynne Haney; title: Excavating "globalization" from street level : homeless men recycle their pasts / Teresa Gowan; title: Degradation without deskilling : twenty-five years in the San Francisco shipyards / Joseph A. Blum; title: "Dirty nurses" and "men who play" : gender and class in transnational migration / Sheba George; title: Net-working for a living : Irish software developers in the global workplace / Seán Ó Riain; title: Traveling feminisms : from embodied women to gendered citizenship / Millie Thayer; title: Cognitive cartography in a European wasteland : multinational capital and greens vie for village allegiance / Zsuzsa Gille; title: Contesting the global city : Pittsburgh's public service unions confront a neoliberal agenda / Steven H. Lopez; title: From private stigma to global assembly : transforming the terrain of breast cancer / Maren Klawiter; title: Grounding globalization / Michael Burawoy.