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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Rina Agarwala (Johns Hopkins University, USA) , Jennifer Jihye Chun (University of California, USA)Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited Volume: 35 Weight: 0.401kg ISBN: 9781787693685ISBN 10: 1787693686 Pages: 190 Publication Date: 10 December 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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 KimReviewsSociologists and other social scientists examine how women continue to be relegated to temporary, casual, seasonal, part-time, and contract work, men's work is increasingly coming to resemble that work as well, even in the Global North. Their topics include from theory to praxis and back to theory: informal workers' struggles against capitalism and patriarchy in India, low-wage worker organizing and advocacy in the US: comparing domestic workers and day laborers, organizing Filipina domestic workers in Vancouver (Canada): gendered geographies and community mobilization, and female entanglements with the neoliberal welfare state: Non-governmental organizations and domestic worker organizing in South Korea.--Annotation (c)2019 (protoview.com) Author InformationRina Agarwala is Associate Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, USA. She publishes and lectures on international development, labor, migration, gender, social movements, and Indian politics. She is the author of Informal Labor, Formal Politics and Dignified Discontent in India and the co-author of Whatever Happened to Class? Reflections from South Asia. Jennifer Jihye Chun is Associate Professor in Asian American Studies and the International Institute at University of California, Los Angeles, USA. She is the author of Organizing at the Margins: The Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United States and is writing a book on public cultures of protest in South Korea. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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