Mary E Frederickson

Looking South

Race, Gender, and the Transformation of Labor from Reconstruction to Globalization. Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 328 Seiten
ISBN 0813042275
EAN 9780813042275
Veröffentlicht Mai 2012
Verlag/Hersteller University Press of Florida
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Beschreibung

In the United States, cheap products made by cheap labour 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 materialised in the red brick mills of the New South. As early as the 1950s, this labour model became the prototype used by U.S. companies as they expanded globally. This development has had increasingly powerful effects on workers and consumers at home and around the world.
Mary E. Frederickson highlights the major economic and cultural changes brought about by deindustrialization and immigration. She also outlines the events, movements, and personalities involved in the race-, class-, and gender-based resistance to industry’s relentless search for cheap labour.

Portrait

Mary E. Frederickson is professor of history at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

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