Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Introduction / Sharon Harley -- Laboring in transnational public spheres -- Race women: cultural productions and radical labor politics / Sharon Harley -- Of poetics and politics: the border journeys of Luisa Moreno / Vicki L. Ruiz -- Caring and inequality / Evelyn Nakano Glenn -- Economic crisis and political mobilization: reshaping cultures of resistance in Tampa's communities of color, 1929-1939 / Nancy A. Hewitt -- The global politics of labor -- Surviving globalization: immigrant women workers in late capitalist America / Evelyn Hu-Dehart -- Harassment of female farmworkers: can the legal system help? / Maria L. Ontiveros -- Caribbean women, domestic labor, and the politics of transnational migration / Carole Boyce Davies -- Creatively coping with crisis and globalization: Zimbabwean businesswomen in crocheting and knitting / Mary Johnson Osirim -- Surviving the global economy -- Of land and sea: women entrepreneurs in Negril, Jamaica / A. Lynn Bolles -- "My cocoa is between my legs": sex as working amont Ghanaian women / Akosua Adomako Ampofo -- Work as a duty and as a joy: understanding the role of work in the lives of Ghanaian female traders of global consumer items / Akosua K. Darkwah -- Gendering sugar: women's disempowerment in Sri Lankan sugar production / Nandini Gunewardena -- List of contributors -- Index.

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