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- Book/Boek
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- Zimmerman, Mary K. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Litt, Jacquelyn S. > (ed.)
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- Bose, Christine E. > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Valiente, Celia
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 5 2006
- Thesaurus
- zorg, zorgarbeid, globalisering, gezinnen, etniciteit, sociale klasse, migratie, burgerschap, kinderopvang, bundel
- Description
- Why are women such prominent workers in the global marketplace? Why do so many perform jobs that involve carework? What political forces have made these women key participants in globalization? What are the consequences for the women themselves, for their families, and for societies and international relations in general? .This book offers an examination of globalization, examining the lives of the women at the center of these new global dynamics. Arguing that society is facing multiple crises of care, the authors develop a new framework for understanding the interplay of globalization, gender, and carework. In four original essays, they examine gender, race, and class inequality: migration, citizenship, and the politics of social control: the evolving meanings of motherhood: and new social definitions of carework and the personal transformation of careworkers. Excerpts from the classic works in the field as well as recent cutting-edge research studies support the examination of each of these growing global crises.
historisch-demografisch onderzoek in Vlaanderen en Nederland : jaarboek historische demografie 2015
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Puschmann, Paul
- Creator
- Paping, Richard
- Creator
- Matthijs, Koen
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- WER 1A 2016
- Thesaurus
- demografie, sociale klasse, gezinnen, onderwijs, migratie, relaties, huwelijken, vruchtbaarheid, gezondheid, loopbanen, historisch, Nederland, Oost-Europa, Zweden, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, statistiek
- Description
- Presentatie van de resultaten van nieuw historisch onderzoek naar de invloed van familie op de levenskansen van individuen. Centraal staat de interactie tussen historische actoren en de demografische en socio-economische kenmerken van de families en huishoudens waarvan zij deel uitmaakten. Naast opleidingsniveau, beroep en sociale status van beide ouders bepaalden de omvang en de samenstelling van de familie en het gezin in belangrijke mate de levenskansen van de kinderen. Dit boek biedt een antwoord op de vraag hoe de gezins- en familiale context zich in het verleden vertaalde in de opleiding, migratietrajecten, partnerkeuze en huwelijkskansen, vruchtbaarheid, gezondheid- en sterfterisico's en carrièrekansen van kinderen.
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- Book/Boek
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- Abisaab, Malek
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- NO 1E 2010
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- betaalde arbeid, burgerschap, kolonialisme, postkolonialisme, migratie, gezinnen, gender, sociale klasse, Libanon, statistiek, 20e eeuw
- Description
- In this book the author takes a gendered approach to labor conflicts, anticolonial struggles, and citizenship in modern Lebanon. The author looks at the conditions and experiences of women workers at the French Tobacco industry. Looking at culturally inscribed roles for Middle Eastern women, the book highlights traditions of public activism and militancy among rural women that are in turn adapted to the spaces of the factory. Women employed distinct strategies involving kinship, sectarian, gender, and class ties to enhance their work conditions and social benefits. The author argues that the condition of women can only be explained by exploring the shifting relationship between culture, societal arrangements, and economic settings.
migration, development, and women workers in China
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hairong, Yan
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- O AZ 53 2008
- Thesaurus
- migratie, sociale klasse, huishoudelijke arbeid, identiteit, media, China
- Description
- This book is an ethnography of class dynamics and the subject formation of migrant domestic workers. Based on interviews with young women who migrated from China's Anhui province to the city of Beijing to undertake domestic service for middle-class families Hairong explores what these migrant domestic workers mean to the families that hire them, to urban economies, to rural provinces such as Anhui, and to the Chinese state. Above all, Yan focuses on the domestic worker's self-conceptions, desires, and struggles. Yan analyzes how the migrant women workers are subjected to, make sense of, and reflect on a range of state and neoliberal discourses about development, modernity, consumption, self-worth, quality, and individual and collective longing and struggle. She offers insight into the workers' desire and efforts to achieve quality through self-improvement, the way the workers are treated by their employers, and representations of migrant domestic workers on television and the Internet and in newspapers and magazines.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Griffin-Cohen, Marjorie > (ed.)
- Creator
- Brodie, Janine > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Reyes, Edmé Dominguez
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 1N 2007
- Thesaurus
- globalisering, zorgarbeid, migratie, kostwinners, mannelijkheid, inheemse volkeren, sociale klasse, Noorwegen, Canada, Mexico, Australië, Verenigde Staten, bundel
- Description
- This book analyses changes in gender relations, as a result of globalization, in countries on the semi-periphery of power. Semi-periphery refers to those nations which are not drivers of change globally, but have enough economic and political security to have some power in determining their own responses to global forces. Individual countries obviously face challenges that are to some extent unique, although the prescriptions for economic and social restructuring are based on a common competitive logic. .This book draws on examples from four countries on the semi-periphery of power but still located in the top category of the Human Development Index. At one end is Norway, one of the world’s richest and most developed welfare-states, and, at the other, is Mexico, a country that is much poorer and more susceptible to the power of the United States and international agencies. Australia and Canada, the other two semi-peripheral countries examined, are in the middle. Also included are comparisons with the epicentre of the ‘core’ base of power – the United States. .The individual chapters focus on the effect on specific groups of people, including males and indigenous groups.
gender and politics in Sri Lanka
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hewamanne, Sandya
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- V IND 52 2008
- Thesaurus
- globalisering, industrie, identiteit, seksualiteit, sociale klasse, migratie, geweld, Sri Lanka
- Description
- Anthropologist Hewamanne spent several months in a Sri Lankan free trade zone (FTZ) working and living among the workers to learn about their lives. Hewamanne weaves theories of identity, globalization, and cultural politics throughout her detailed accounts of the workers' efforts to negotiate ever shifting roles and expectations of gender, class, and sexuality.
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- Book/Boek
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- Faderman, Lillian
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- VS 1E 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- migratie, oorlog en vrede, industrie, joodse vrouwen, vakbonden, sociale klasse, 20e eeuw, Verenigde Staten, biografie
- Description
- This is the memoir Lillian Faderman’s mother was never able to write. The daughter delves into her mother’s past to tell the story of a Latvian girl who left her village for America with dreams of a life on the stage and met the realities of her new world: the battles she was forced to fight as a woman, an immigrant worker, and a Jew with family left behind in Hitler’s deadly path. The story begins in 1914: Mary, the girl who will become Lillian Faderman’s mother, just seventeen and swept up with vague ambitions to be a dancer, travels alone to America, where her half-sister in Brooklyn takes her in. She finds a job in the garment industry and a shop friend who teaches her the thrills of dance halls and the cheap amusements open to working-class girls. This dazzling life leaves Mary distracted and her half-sister and brother-in-law scandalized and they kick her out of their home.. Eighteen years later, still barely scraping by as a garment worker and unmarried at thirty-five, Mary falls madly in love with a man who will never marry her, but who will father Lillian Faderman before he disappears from their lives. America is in the midst of the Depression, Hitler is coming to power in Europe, and New York’s garment workers are just beginning to unionize. As National Socialism engulfs Europe, Mary realizes she must find a way to get her family out of Latvia, and she spends frenetic months chasing vague promises and false rumors of hope. Mary faces both single motherhood and the devastating possibility of losing her entire Eastern European family. Lillian Faderman has reconstructed an engrossing and essential chapter in the history of women, of workers, of Jews, and of the Holocaust as immigrants experienced it from American shores.
an American history with documents
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- DuBois, Ellen Carol > [ed.]
- Creator
- Dumenil, Lynn > [ed.]
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 1A 2009 - B
- Thesaurus
- geschiedenis, politieke participatie, terrorisme, migratie, kolonialisme, etniciteit, religie, sociale klasse, arbeidsmarkt, arbeidsparticipatie, vrouwenbewegingen, feminisme, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, Verenigde Staten, naslagwerk
- Description
- This is a textbook in U.S. women’s history to present an inclusive narrative within the context of the central developments of U.S. history and to integrate written and visual primary sources into each chapter. The result was to 'reveal the relationship between secondary and original sources, to show history as a dynamic process of investigation and interpretation rather than a set body of facts and figures.' The book focuses on women from a broad range of ethnicities, classes, religions, and regions. With a signature of Ellen Dubois
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Cornwall, Andrea > (ed.)
- Creator
- Karioris, Frank G. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Lindisfarne, Nancy > (ed.)
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- WER 1P 2016 - B
- Thesaurus
- mannelijkheid, liberalisme, sociale klasse, migratie, vaderschap, religie, islam, sporten, homoseksualiteit, Angola, Brazilië, China, India, Jamaica, Marokko, Nieuw-Zeeland, Rusland, Sierra Leone, Verenigde Arabische Emiraten, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Zimbabwe, bundel
- Description
- Building on the work of the author’s ‘Dislocating masculinity : comparative ethnographies (1994)’, this collection provides a fresh perspective on gender dynamics under neoliberalism. Bringing together a series of short case studies drawn from new ethnographic fieldwork, its subjects range from the experiences of working-class men in Putins Russia to colonial masculinities in Southern Rhodesia, and from young British Muslim men to amateur footballers in Jamaica.
the politics of survival in sub-Saharan Africa
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Mikell, Gwendolyn > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Schoepf, Brooke Grundfest
- Publish Year
- 1997
- Shelfmark
- B1428 - B
- Thesaurus
- zwart feminisme, familierecht, textielindustrie, sociale klasse, alcohol, steden, kolonialisme, migratie, plattelandsvrouwen, politieke participatie, crisissen, vrouwennetwerken, technologie, traditionele geneeswijzen, aids, Afrika, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- De bundel bevat case studies waarin een beeld wordt geschetst van de politieke en economische situatie in tien Afrikaanse landen. Tevens wordt aangetoond dat Afrikaans feminisme zich sterk onderscheidt van westers feminisme. Bevat de volgende bijdragen: Part I. Legal interactions in the domestic realm : 1) Changing the meaning of marriage : women and family law in Côte d'Ivoire/ door Jeanne Maddox Toungara: 2) Wives, children, and Intestate Succession in Ghana/ door Takyiwaa Manuh: 3)Pleas for domestic relief : Akan women and family courts/ door Gwendolyn Mikell. Part II. Economic change, political economy and womens's lives : 4) Swazi women workers in cottage industries and factories/ door Betty J.Harris: 5) Alcohol and politics in urban Zambia : the intersection of gender and class/ door Ilsa M.Glazer: 6) Women's roles in settlement and resettlement in Mali/ door Dolores Koenig: 7) Ethiopian rural women and the state/ door Tsehai Berhane-Selassie: 8)Women and grassroots politics in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire/ door Carlene H.Dei: 9) Kenyan women in politics and public decision making/ door Maria Nzomo: Part III Surviving crisis in the community 10)'Our women keep our skies from falling' : women's networks and survival imperatives in Tshunyane, South Africa/ door Shawn Riva Donaldson 11) Technology and the fuel crisis : adjustment among women in Northern Nigeria/ door D.J. Shehu 12) Swazi traditional healers, role transformation, and gender/ door Enid Gort 13) AIDS, gender and sexuality during Africa's economic crisis/ door Brooke Grundfest Schoepf.
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