This book presents research findings from across the global South that substantively improves our understanding of time-use, poverty and gender equalities, to shed light on why unpaid work is indispensable to economic analysis and effective policy making. Unpaid Work is increasi…
Migration and domestic work: a European perspective on a global theme ; [many …
by International Conference "Migration and Domestic Work in Global Perspective", Wassenaar, International Conference "Migration and Domestic Work in Global Perspective", Wassenaar
fromStudies in migration and diaspora
Producing in/visibility in Los Angeles -- Middle-class dreaming and the limits of "Americanness"--Making mothers count -- Organizing, motherhood, and the meanings of (domestic) work -- Dreaming American
Ingenious citizenship : appropriating the liberal citizenship script -- Migrant domestic workers, hidden tactics, and appropriating political citizenship -- Global sex workers, calculated abjection, and appropriating economic citizenship -- Trans people, morphing technologies, a…
In Ingenious Citizenship Charles T. Lee centers the daily experiences and actions of migrant domestic workers, sex workers, transgender people, and suicide bombers in his rethinking of mainstream models of social change. Bridging cultural and political theory with analyses of fi…
"In this first-ever international history of the divisive and influential feminist movement Wages for Housework, Louise Toupin draws on extensive archival research and interviews with the movement's founders and activists from Italy, England, Germany, Switzerland, the United Sta…
"In this first-ever international history of the divisive and influential feminist movement Wages for Housework, Louise Toupin draws on extensive archival research and interviews with the movement's founders and activists from Italy, England, Germany, Switzerland, the United Sta…
"Myra Strober became a feminist on the Bay Bridge, heading toward San Francisco. It is 1970. She has just been told by the chairman of Berkeley's economics department that she can never get tenure. Driving home afterward, wondering if she got something out of the freezer for her…
"Myra Strober became a feminist on the Bay Bridge, heading toward San Francisco. It is 1970. She has just been told by the chairman of Berkeley's economics department that she can never get tenure. Driving home afterward, wondering if she got something out of the freezer for her…