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In the United States, cheap products made by cheap labor are in especially high demand, purchased by men and women who have watched their own wages decline and jobs disappear. Looking South examines the effects of race, class, and gender in the development of the low-wage, anti-union, and state-supported industries that marked the creation of the New South and now the Global South. Workers in the contemporary Global South--those nations of Central and Latin America, most of Asia, and Africa--live and work within a model of industrial development that materialized in the red bri

Labor market --- African Americans --- Women --- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) --- Globalization --- History. --- Employment --- Economic aspects.

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"Inspired by the story of Margaret Garner, who in 1856 slit her daughter's throat rather than have her forced back into slavery, the essays in this collection focus on historical and contemporary examples of resistance, and issues of slavery and freedom from the eighteenth through the twenty-first centuries. The story of Margaret Garner offered the narrative for Toni Morrison's Beloved, the opera Margaret Garner, and much controversy in its time over whether Garner's actions exemplified the evils of the institution of slavery or justified the continued control over African Americans who might perform such an act. Divided into two main sections, the book first addresses the historical and cultural aspects of gendered resistance in the US during the first half of the nineteenth century as enslaved women and men struggled to survive in and escape from a system that thrived on their bondage. In the second half of the volume, the focus turns to contemporary global slavery to examine the psychological consequences of trauma and sexual violence in a number of geographic locations, including Brazil, Yemen, India, and the United States"--

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global). --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery. --- Sex crimes. --- Women slaves --- Slavery in literature. --- Government, Resistance to --- Fugitive slaves --- Slaves --- Slave women --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Abuse, Sexual --- Sex offenses --- Sexual abuse --- Sexual crimes --- Sexual delinquency --- Sexual offenses --- Sexual violence --- Crime --- Prostitution --- Civil resistance --- Non-resistance to government --- Resistance to government --- Political science --- Political violence --- Insurgency --- Nonviolence --- Revolutions --- Runaway slaves --- Slavery --- Violence against. --- Social conditions. --- History. --- Garner, Margaret, --- Influence. --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2009 --- Women, Enslaved --- Enslaved persons --- Enslaved persons in literature --- Political resistance --- Enslaved women --- History --- Sexually transgressive behavior --- Feminist struggle --- Liberation movements --- Book

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This volume considers how women are shaping the global economic landscape through their labor, activism, and multiple discourses about work. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of international scholars, the book offers a gendered examination of work in the global economy and analyses the effects of the 2008 downturn on women’s labor force participation and workplace activism. The book addresses three key themes: exploitation versus opportunity; women’s agency within the context of changing economic options; and women’s negotiations and renegotiations of unpaid social reproductive labor. This uniquely interdisciplinary and comparative analysis will be crucial reading for anyone with an interest in gender and the post-crisis world.

Women --- Sex role. --- Employment.