Beyond 'Déjà Vu All Over Again?' Women's Work in the Global Economy

• Published in: Journal of Women's History Vol. 19; no. 3; pp. 222 - 231
• Main Author: Gabaccia, Donna R
• Format: Journal Article Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.10.2007
• Subjects: Academic departments; Anthropologists; Asian cultural groups; Chinese languages; Cultural identity; Departments; Discourse analysis; Economic conditions; Gender; Global economy; Globalization; Historians; Interdisciplinary aspects; Labor movements; Labour relations; Literary translation; Maoism; Migrant workers; Migrants; Migration; Neoliberalism; Nonfiction; Photography; Political economy; Postmodernism; Professional training; Qualitative research; Review articles; Scholars; Studies; Women; Women's work; Working conditions; Hong Kong China; Nicaragua; China; Latin America

In our postcommunist, postsocialist, post-Maoist, postmodern, neoliberal era, the changes associated with globalization-which include rapid, longdistance movements of capital, labor, images and ideas-seem capable of radically transforming the lives, identities, options, and desires of laborers every...