Fast Forward: Work, Gender, and Protest in a Changing World - Hardcover

Dickinson, Torry D.; Schaeffer, Robert K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0742508943 ISBN 13: 9780742508941

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001

Synopsis

This innovative, global feminist analysis of work and politics examines the diverse problems and related protests of women and men who labor to make ends meet in a rapidly-changing world. Using vivid examples from around the world, it reveals how 'globalization' is reshaping social institutions and lives. Fast Forward explores how businesses and states reshaped and redistributed work around the world during the last 30 years of 'globalization,' often with adverse consequences. Within this fast-moving context, laboring people today engage in work outside of formal employment, try to obtain survival resources, mount a diverse array of often women-centered protests against firms and states, and try--on their own terms--to reinvent work and democratic political practices. Portraying the human face of global change, Fast Forward shows how overlapping social movements wrestle with economic and political marginalization, and initiate highly diverse, but related attempts to change the way the world works.

About this title

About the Author

Torry Dickinson is associate professor of women's studies at Kansas State University. Robert Schaeffer is associate professor of sociology at Kansas State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0742508943
• ISBN 13: 9780742508941
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304