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

Dickinson, Torry D.; Schaeffer, Robert K.

ISBN 10: 0742508951 / ISBN 13: 9780742508958

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001

9" X 5.875" in glossy illustrated heavy paper covers. VERY minor wear: FINE condition. 301pp. [CA058] FIRST EDITION. Seller Inventory # W857

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 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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Fast Forward: Work, Gender, and Protest in a...
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: 1st Edition