Author: Lois A. West
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781566394918
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Using extensive interviews and first-hand observations, West traces the KMU's rise and eventual fragmentation in a time of economic and political crisis.
Militant Labor in the Philippines
Author: Lois A. West
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781566394918
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Using extensive interviews and first-hand observations, West traces the KMU's rise and eventual fragmentation in a time of economic and political crisis.
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781566394918
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Using extensive interviews and first-hand observations, West traces the KMU's rise and eventual fragmentation in a time of economic and political crisis.
Union Revitalization and Social Movement Unionism in the Philippines
Author: Marie E. Aganon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789716919622
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789716919622
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
History of the Philippione Labor Movement
Author: Dante G. Guevarra
Publisher: Rex Bookstore, Inc.
ISBN: 9789712317552
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Publisher: Rex Bookstore, Inc.
ISBN: 9789712317552
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Labor and Politics in Indonesia
Author: Teri L. Caraway
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108478476
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The first analysis of how Indonesia's labor movement overcame organizational weakness to become the most vibrant in Southeast Asia.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108478476
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The first analysis of how Indonesia's labor movement overcame organizational weakness to become the most vibrant in Southeast Asia.
Satanic Mills Or Silicon Islands?
Author: Steven Charles McKay
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801442360
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Challenges the myth of globalization's homogenizing power, arguing that the uniqueness of place is becoming more, notless important. Documents how multinational firms secure worker control and consent by reaching beyond the high-tech factory and into local labour markets. Traces also the rise of a new breed of privatized export processing zones, revealing the state's, in these cases, the Philippines', revamped role in the wider politics of global production.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801442360
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Challenges the myth of globalization's homogenizing power, arguing that the uniqueness of place is becoming more, notless important. Documents how multinational firms secure worker control and consent by reaching beyond the high-tech factory and into local labour markets. Traces also the rise of a new breed of privatized export processing zones, revealing the state's, in these cases, the Philippines', revamped role in the wider politics of global production.
Filipino American Transnational Activism
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900441455X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Read an interview with Robyn Rodriguez. Filipino American Transnational Activism: Diasporic Politics among the Second Generation offers an account of how Filipinos born or raised in the United States often defy the multiple assimilationist agendas that attempt to shape their understandings of themselves. Despite conditions that might lead them to reject any kind of relationship to the Philippines in favor of a deep rootedness in the United States, many forge linkages to the “homeland” and are actively engaged in activism and social movements transnationally. Though it may well be true that most Filipino Americans have an ambivalent relationship to the Philippines, many of the chapters of this book show that other possibilities for belonging and imaginaries of “home” are being crafted and pursued.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900441455X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Read an interview with Robyn Rodriguez. Filipino American Transnational Activism: Diasporic Politics among the Second Generation offers an account of how Filipinos born or raised in the United States often defy the multiple assimilationist agendas that attempt to shape their understandings of themselves. Despite conditions that might lead them to reject any kind of relationship to the Philippines in favor of a deep rootedness in the United States, many forge linkages to the “homeland” and are actively engaged in activism and social movements transnationally. Though it may well be true that most Filipino Americans have an ambivalent relationship to the Philippines, many of the chapters of this book show that other possibilities for belonging and imaginaries of “home” are being crafted and pursued.
Migrants for Export
Author: Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452915210
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Migrant workers from the Philippines are ubiquitous to global capitalism, with nearly 10 percent of the population employed in almost two hundred countries. In a visit to the United States in 2003, Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo even referred to herself as not only the head of state but also “the CEO of a global Philippine enterprise of eight million Filipinos who live and work abroad.†Robyn Magalit Rodriguez investigates how and why the Philippine government transformed itself into what she calls a labor brokerage state, which actively prepares, mobilizes, and regulates its citizens for migrant work abroad. Filipino men and women fill a range of jobs around the globe, including domestic work, construction, and engineering, and they have even worked in the Middle East to support U.S. military operations. At the same time, the state redefines nationalism to normalize its citizens to migration while fostering their ties to the Philippines. Those who leave the country to work and send their wages to their families at home are treated as new national heroes. Drawing on ethnographic research of the Philippine government's migration bureaucracy, interviews, and archival work, Rodriguez presents a new analysis of neoliberal globalization and its consequences for nation-state formation.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452915210
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Migrant workers from the Philippines are ubiquitous to global capitalism, with nearly 10 percent of the population employed in almost two hundred countries. In a visit to the United States in 2003, Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo even referred to herself as not only the head of state but also “the CEO of a global Philippine enterprise of eight million Filipinos who live and work abroad.†Robyn Magalit Rodriguez investigates how and why the Philippine government transformed itself into what she calls a labor brokerage state, which actively prepares, mobilizes, and regulates its citizens for migrant work abroad. Filipino men and women fill a range of jobs around the globe, including domestic work, construction, and engineering, and they have even worked in the Middle East to support U.S. military operations. At the same time, the state redefines nationalism to normalize its citizens to migration while fostering their ties to the Philippines. Those who leave the country to work and send their wages to their families at home are treated as new national heroes. Drawing on ethnographic research of the Philippine government's migration bureaucracy, interviews, and archival work, Rodriguez presents a new analysis of neoliberal globalization and its consequences for nation-state formation.
Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements
Author: Susan Blackburn
Publisher: NUS Press
ISBN: 9971696746
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Books on Southeast Asian nationalist movements make very little - if any - mention of women in their ranks. Biographical studies of politically active women in Southeast Asia are also rare. Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements makes a strong case for the significance of women's involvement in nationalist movements and for the diverse impact of those movements on the lives of individual women activists. Some of the 12 women whose political activities are discussed in this volume are well known, while others are not. Some of them participated in armed struggles, while others pursued peaceful ways of achieving national independence. The authors show women negotiating their own subjectivity and agency at the confluence of colonialism, patriarchal traditions, and modern ideals of national and personal emancipation. They also illustrate the constraints imposed on them by wider social and political structures, and show what it was like to live as a political activist in different times and places. Fully documented and drawing on wider scholarship, this book will be of interest to students of Southeast Asian history and politics as well as readers with a particular interest in women, nationalism and political activism.
Publisher: NUS Press
ISBN: 9971696746
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Books on Southeast Asian nationalist movements make very little - if any - mention of women in their ranks. Biographical studies of politically active women in Southeast Asia are also rare. Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements makes a strong case for the significance of women's involvement in nationalist movements and for the diverse impact of those movements on the lives of individual women activists. Some of the 12 women whose political activities are discussed in this volume are well known, while others are not. Some of them participated in armed struggles, while others pursued peaceful ways of achieving national independence. The authors show women negotiating their own subjectivity and agency at the confluence of colonialism, patriarchal traditions, and modern ideals of national and personal emancipation. They also illustrate the constraints imposed on them by wider social and political structures, and show what it was like to live as a political activist in different times and places. Fully documented and drawing on wider scholarship, this book will be of interest to students of Southeast Asian history and politics as well as readers with a particular interest in women, nationalism and political activism.
States, Ideologies, and Social Revolutions
Author: Misagh Parsa
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521774307
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
An analysis of the causes and processes of revolution, drawing on the stories of Iran, Nicaragua, and the Philippines.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521774307
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
An analysis of the causes and processes of revolution, drawing on the stories of Iran, Nicaragua, and the Philippines.
City of Workers, City of Struggle
Author: Joshua B. Freeman
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023154958X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
From the founding of New Amsterdam until today, working people have helped create and re-create the City of New York through their struggles. Starting with artisans and slaves in colonial New York and ranging all the way to twenty-first-century gig-economy workers, this book tells the story of New York’s labor history anew. City of Workers, City of Struggle brings together essays by leading historians of New York and a wealth of illustrations, offering rich descriptions of work, daily life, and political struggle. It recounts how workers have developed formal and informal groups not only to advance their own interests but also to pursue a vision of what the city should be like and whom it should be for. The book goes beyond the largely white, male wage workers in mainstream labor organizations who have dominated the history of labor movements to look at enslaved people, indentured servants, domestic workers, sex workers, day laborers, and others who have had to fight not only their masters and employers but also labor groups that often excluded them. Through their stories—how they fought for inclusion or developed their own ways to advance—it recenters labor history for contemporary struggles. City of Workers, City of Struggle offers the definitive account of the four-hundred-year history of efforts by New York workers to improve their lives and their communities. In association with the exhibition City of Workers, City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New York at the Museum of the City of New York
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023154958X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
From the founding of New Amsterdam until today, working people have helped create and re-create the City of New York through their struggles. Starting with artisans and slaves in colonial New York and ranging all the way to twenty-first-century gig-economy workers, this book tells the story of New York’s labor history anew. City of Workers, City of Struggle brings together essays by leading historians of New York and a wealth of illustrations, offering rich descriptions of work, daily life, and political struggle. It recounts how workers have developed formal and informal groups not only to advance their own interests but also to pursue a vision of what the city should be like and whom it should be for. The book goes beyond the largely white, male wage workers in mainstream labor organizations who have dominated the history of labor movements to look at enslaved people, indentured servants, domestic workers, sex workers, day laborers, and others who have had to fight not only their masters and employers but also labor groups that often excluded them. Through their stories—how they fought for inclusion or developed their own ways to advance—it recenters labor history for contemporary struggles. City of Workers, City of Struggle offers the definitive account of the four-hundred-year history of efforts by New York workers to improve their lives and their communities. In association with the exhibition City of Workers, City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New York at the Museum of the City of New York