Still Dancing Together: Women's Workers' Mobilization, State Action and Global Capital

I appreciate the opportunity this symposium offers to revisit We Are in This Dance Together, and to rethink some of the book's insights from a world systems perspective. As a feminist ethnographer, my goal was to understand women workers' lives and how they participated in shaping their ow...

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Published inJournal of world-systems research Vol. 21; no. 2; p. 549
Main Author Plankey-Videla, Nancy
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Pittsburgh University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 01.01.2015
Subjects
Clothing industry
Competition
Criticism
Economic recession
Employment
Essays
Females
Floods
Garment industry
Globalization
Governance
Industrial tribunals
International trade
Labor disputes
Labor law
Methodological problems
Mobilization
Textile industry
Wages & salaries
Weather
Women
Workers
United States > US
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Summary:I appreciate the opportunity this symposium offers to revisit We Are in This Dance Together, and to rethink some of the book's insights from a world systems perspective. As a feminist ethnographer, my goal was to understand women workers' lives and how they participated in shaping their own futures as active agents. Being immersed in the shop floor, flooded with daily experiences, conversations, and observations, I focused on social relations of power at the shop floor and state institutional levels rather than the world system. Global power dynamics, however, were palpable on the shop floor. This forum allows me to revisit Moctezuma, examine how the apparel industry and state policy have changed since my time there in ways that provide new opportunities and constraints for workers, and reflect on questions and insights provided by the essayists.
ISSN:1076-156X
DOI:10.5195/jwsr.2015.32