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Globalization, labor export and resistance : a study of Filipino migrant domestic workers in global cities
- Author
- Lindio-McGovern, Ligaya.
- Title
- Globalization, labor export and resistance : a study of Filipino migrant domestic workers in global cities / Ligaya Lindio-McGovern.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, c2012.
- Description
- xvii, 193 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Uniform series
- Rethinking globalizations ; 32.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Globalization, labor export and resistance: rethinking neoliberal globalization from below
- Circuits of the commodifcation of Filipino domestic workers in the labor export web of globalization
- Circuits of resistance to labor export in the context of globalization
- Resistance in Hong Kong
- Resistance in Taiwan
- Resistance in Vancouver
- Resistance in Rome
- Resistance and non-resistance in Chicago
- Resistance in the homefront: the labor-sending country
- Conclusion: from retrospect to prospects, from theory to policy.
- Subject headings
- Globalization--Economic aspects. Women household employees--Political activity--Philippines. Women foreign workers--Political activity--Philippines. Globalization--Social aspects.
- ISBN
- 9780415603799 041560379X 9780203804940 0203804945