Labor Versus Empire: Race, Gender, Migration

by Gonzalez,Gilbert G.

• ISBN13: 9780415948159
• ISBN10: 0415948150
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-07-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The essays in this collection address issues significant to labor within regional, national and international contexts. Themes of the chapters will focus on managed labor migration; organizing in multi-ethnic and multi-national contexts; global economics and labor; global economics and inequality; gender and labor; racism and globalization; regional trade agreements and labor.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	xii
Globalization: Masking Imperialism and the Struggles from Below
Raul Fernandez, Gilbert G. Gonzalez, Vivian Price, David Smith, and Linda Trinh Vo University of California, Irvine
I. Empire: Global Capitalism and Domination
New Times and New Identities: Solidarities of Sameness and Dynamics of Difference	3	(14)
George Lipsitz
Department of American Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Labor, Race, and Empire: Transport Workers and Transnational Empires of Trade, Production, and Finance	17	(20)
Thomas Ehrlich Reifer
Department of Sociology, University of California, Riverside
Latin America and the Empire of Global Capital	37	(18)
William I. Robinson
Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Empire and Labor: U.S. and Latin America	55	(16)
James Petras
Department of Sociology, State University of New York -Binghamton
Sexuality in the Marketplace	71	(18)
Bernardo Useche, School of Public Health, University of Texas, Houston and Amalia Cabezas
Department of Women's Studies, University of California, Riverside
II. States: Immigration and Citizenship
Class, Space, and the State in India: A Comparative Perspective on the Politics of Empire	89	(16)
Leela Fernandes
Department of Political Science, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Race, Labor, and the State: The Quasi-Citizenship of Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers	105	(16)
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis
On the Border of Love and Money: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic	121	(12)
Amalia Lucia Cabezas
Department of Women's Studies, University of California, Riverside
Work, Immigrant Marginality, and 'Integration' in New Countries of Immigration: Déjà Vu All Over Again?	133	(10)
Kitty Calavita
Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine
Culture, Power, and Oil: The Experience of Venezuelan Oil Camps and the Construction of Citizenship	143	(22)
Miguel Tinker Salas
Department of History, Pomona College
III. Workers: Solidarity and Resistance
Empire, Strategies of Resistance, and the Shanghai Labor Movement, 1925-1927
Wai Kit Choi	165	(18)
Sociology Department, University of California, Irvine
Crossing the Borders: Labor, Community, and Colonialism in the Jaffa-Tel-Aviv Region during the Mandate Period	183	(16)
Mark Le Vine
History Department, University of California, Irvine
Flexible Production and Industrial Restructuring in Hong Kong: From Boom to Bust?	199	(18)
Stephen W.K. Chiu
Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and
Alvin Y. So
Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
From the Third World to the "Third World Within": Asian Women Workers Fighting Globalization	217	(18)
Grace Chang
Women's Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Can U.S. Workers Embrace Anti-Imperialism?	235	(14)
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
TransAfrica Forum
Why the Mexican Rural Sector Can't Take It Anymore	249	(14)
Victor Quintana
Frente Democratico Campesino, Chihuahua, Mexico
Index	263