Overview

In this follow-up to the highly successful Ethnography Unbound, Michael Burawoy and nine colleagues break the bounds of conventional sociology, to explore the mutual shaping of local struggles and global forces. In contrast to the lofty debates between radical theorists, these nine studies excavate the dynamics and histories of globalization by extending out from the concrete, everyday world. The authors were participant observers in diverse struggles over extending citizenship, medicalizing breast cancer, dumping toxic waste, privatizing nursing homes, the degradation of work, the withdrawal of welfare rights, and the elaboration of body politics. From their insider vantage points, they show how groups negotiate, circumvent, challenge, and even re-create the complex global web that entangles them. Traversing continents and extending over three years, this collaborative research developed its own distinctive method of ""grounded globalization"" to grasp the evaporation of traditional workplaces, the dissolution of enclaved communities, and the fluidity of identities. Forged between the local and global, these compelling essays make a powerful case for ethnography's insight into global dynamics.

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Author:   Michael Burawoy ,  Joseph A. Blum ,  Sheba George ,  Zsuzsa Gille
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780520222168

ISBN 10:   0520222164
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   01 October 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface 1. Introduction: Reaching for the Global Michael Burawoy PART ONE * GLOBAL FORCES Introduction to Part One 2. Global Discourses of Need: Mythologizing and Pathologizing Welfare in Hungary LynneHaney 3* Excavating Globalization from Street Level: Homeless Men Recycle Their Pasts Teresa Gowan 4* Degradation without Deskilling: Twenty-Five Years in the San Francisco Shipyards Joseph A. Blum PART TWO* GLOBAL CONNECTIONS Introduction to Part Two 5* Dirty Nurses and Men Who Play : Gender and Class in Transnational Migration Sheba George 6. Net-Working for a Living: Irish Software Developers in the Global Workplace Sean 6 Riain 7. Traveling Feminisms: From Embodied Women to Gendered Citizenship Millie Thayer PART THREE* GLOBAL IMAGINATIONS Introduction to Part Three 8. Cognitive Cartography in a European Wasteland: Multinational Capital and Greens Vie for Village Allegiance Zsuz.sa Gille g. Contesting the Global City: Pittsburgh's Public Service Unions Confront a Neoliberal Agenda Steven H. Lopez 10. From Private Stigma to Global Assembly: Transforming the Terrain of Breast Cancer Maren Klawiter CONCLUSION 11. Grounding Globalization Michael Burawoy Bibliography Index

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All of the authors were affiliated with the Sociology Department at the University of California, Berkeley.

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