Gendering struggles against informal and precarious work. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Rina Agarwala, Jennifer Jihye Chun.
• Editors: Agarwala, Rina, 1973-; Chun, Jennifer Jihye, 1973-
• Contents: Introduction: Gendering Struggles Against Informal and Precarious Work; Rina Agarwala and Jennifer Jihye Chun 1. From Theory to Praxis and Back to Theory: Informal Workers' Struggles against Capitalism and Patriarchy in India; Rina Agarwala 2. Low Wage Worker Organizing and Advocacy in the U.S.A.: Comparing Domestic Workers and Day Laborers; Ruth Milkman 3. Masculine Vulnerabilities: the Double Bind of Manhood in Global Migration; Saun Juhi Verma 4. Organizing Filipina Domestic Workers in Vancouver Canada: Gendered Geographies and Community Mobilization; Geraldine Pratt with Migrante BC 5. Intersectional Histories, Overdetermined Fortunes: Understanding Mexican and US Domestic Worker Movements; Chris Tilly, Georgina Rojas and Nik Theodore 6. Feminist Entanglements with the Neoliberal Welfare State: NGOs and Domestic Worker Organizing in South Korea; Jennifer Jihye Chun and Yang-Sook Kim.
• Publisher Details: United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 331.4; Women -- Employment; Sex discrimination in employment; Construction industry -- Employees; Women construction workers; Women household employees; Sex role in the work environment
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787693692; 9781787693678
• Related ISBNs: 9781787693685
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