1st Edition
Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance A Study of Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers in Global Cities
1. Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance: Rethinking Neoliberal Globalization from Below Part 1: Circuits of Power in the Globalization of Reproductive Labor 2. Circuits of the Commodifcation of Filipino Domestic Workers in the Labor Export Web of Globalization Part 2: Circuits of Resistance to Labor Export in the Context of Globalization 3. Resistance in Hong Kong 4. Resistance in Taiwan 5. Resistance in Vancouver 6. Resistance in Rome 7. Resistance and Non-Resistance in Chicago 8. Resistance in the Homefront: The Labor-Sending Country 9. Conclusion: From Retrospect to Prospects, From Theory to Policy
Biography
Ligaya Lindio-McGovern is Professor of Sociology at Indiana University Kokomo, USA, author of Filipino Peasant Women: Exploitation and Resistance, and co-editor of Globalization and Third World Women: Exploitation, Coping and Resistance, and Gender and Globalization: Patterns of Women’s Resistance.
