Global Dimensions of Gender and Carework / Edition 1

by Mary K. Zimmerman, Jacquelyn S. Litt, Christine E. Bose

Overview

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 a provocative 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780804753241
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Publication date:	03/17/2006
Edition description:	1
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Mary K. Zimmerman is Professor of Sociology and Professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of Kansas. Jacquelyn S. Litt is Director of Women's and Gender Studies and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Christine E. Bose is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Women's Studies Department at the Universityat Albany, State University of New York.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	xiii
	Introduction	1
Part I	Globalization and Multiple Crises of Care
Chapter 1	Globalization and Multiple Crises of Care	9
Chapter 2	Global Cities and Survival Circuits	30
Chapter 3	Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy	39
Chapter 4	Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers and the International Division of Reproductive Labor	48
Chapter 5	Labor Recruitment and the Lure of the Capital: Central American Migrants in Washington, DC	65
Chapter 6	Multilateral Organizations and Early Child Care and Education Policies for Developing Countries	75
Chapter 7	Globalization, Work Hours, and the Care Deficit among Stockbrokers	86
Part II	Transnational Migration: Influences on Citizenship, Social Control, and Carework
Chapter 8	Transnational Migration: Influences on Citizenship, Social Control, and Carework	103
Chapter 9	"Just Like One of the Family": Domestic Servants in World Politics	118
Chapter 10	From Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor	123
Chapter 11	Rethinking the Globalization of Domestic Service: Foreign Domestics, State Control, and the Politics of Identity in Taiwan	128
Chapter 12	International Migration, Domestic Work, and Care Work: Undocumented Latina Migrants in Israel	145
Chapter 13	"Forced" into Unpaid Carework: International Students' Wives in the United States	162
Chapter 14	Caregiving in Transnational Context: "My Wings Have Been Cut; Where Can I Fly?"	176
Part III	Motherhood, Domestic Work, and Childcare in Global Perspective
Chapter 15	Motherhood, Domestic Work, and Childcare in Global Perspective	195
Chapter 16	The Invisible Heart	211
Chapter 17	Making Care Work: Employed Mothers in the New Childcare Market	217
Chapter 18	Doing the Dirty Work? The Global Politics of Domestic Labour	226
Chapter 19	Unraveling Privilege: Workers' Children and the Hidden Costs of Paid Childcare	240
Chapter 20	"I'm Here, But I'm There": The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood	254
Chapter 21	Maid or Madam? Filipina Migrant Workers and the Continuity of Domestic Labor	266
Chapter 22	"Women Have No Tribe": Connecting Carework, Gender, and Migration in an Era of HIV/AIDS in Botswana	277
Part IV	Valuing Carework Through Policy and Culture: Communities, States, and Supranational Institutions
Chapter 23	Valuing Carework through Policy and Culture: Communities, States, and Supranational Institutions	287
Chapter 24	After the Family Wage: A Postindustrial Thought Experiment	305
Chapter 25	Woman-Friendly States and a Public Culture of Care	311
Chapter 26	Women and the Restructuring of Care Work: Cross-National Variations and Trends in Ten OECD Countries	318
Chapter 27	Care Work: Invisible Civic Engagement	324
Chapter 28	Acid Violence and Medical Care in Bangladesh: Women's Activism as Carework	341
Chapter 29	Women's Empowering Carework in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan	351
Chapter 30	Central State Child Care Policies in Post-Authoritarian Spain: Implications for Gender and Carework Arrangements	362
	Conclusion	369
	Copyright Acknowledgments	379
	Index	383

Editorial Reviews

"This book provides an excellent overview of the complex social forces causing crises in care and the impact of these crises on individuals across the globe. It is a powerful statement and a wonderful teaching resource."—International Journal of Sociology of the Family

"The book is highly readable and a valuable resource for understanding the global hierarchies of inequality."—CHOICE

From the Publisher

"The book is highly readable and a valuable resource for understanding the global hierarchies of inequality."

CHOICE

"This book provides an excellent overview of the complex social forces causing crises in care and the impact of these crises on individuals across the globe. It is a powerful statement and a wonderful teaching resource."

International Journal of Sociology of the Family