DISPOSABLE WOMEN AND OTHER MYTHS OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM by Melissa Wright ( 9780415951449 )

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DISPOSABLE WOMEN AND OTHER MYTHS OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM

By:

Melissa Wright

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Hardback

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0415951445

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9780415951449

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

17 August, 2006

Series:

Perspectives on Gender

Pages:

208

Description:

A cross-disciplinary weave of poststructuralist feminism, Marxist theory, and ethnographic accounts of women workers for multinational firms in export-processing zones. This book tells a story that is the opposite of the onward and upward tale so integral to mainstream accounts of the workings of our global capitalist system.

Synopsis:

Everyday, around the world, women who work in the Third World factories of global firms face the idea that they are disposable. Melissa W. Wright explains how this notion proliferates, both within and beyond factory walls, through the telling of a simple story: the myth of the disposable Third World woman. This myth explains how young women workers around the world eventually turn into living forms of waste. Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism follows this myth inside the global factories and surrounding cities in northern Mexico and in southern China, illustrating the crucial role the tale plays in maintaining not just the constant flow of global capital, but the present regime of transnational capitalism. The author also investigates how women challenge the story and its meaning for workers in global firms. These innovative responses illustrate how a politics for confronting global capitalism must include the many creative ways that working people resist its dehumanizing effects.

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Routledge

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