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Changing Gender Patterns of Work in Global Value Chains

Capturing the Gains?

By: Stephanie Barrientos

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Changing Gender Patterns of Work in Global Value Chains

Capturing the Gains?

By: Stephanie Barrientos

This book focuses on the changing gender patterns of work in a global retail environment associated with the rise of contemporary retail and global sourcing. This has affected the working lives of hundreds of millions of workers in high-, middle- and low-income countries. The growth of contemporary retail has been driven by the commercialised production of many goods previously produced unpaid by women within the home. Sourcing is now largely undertaken through global value chains in low- or middle-income economies, using a 'cheap' feminised labour force to produce low-price goods. As women have been drawn into the labour force, households are increasingly dependent on the purchase of food and consumer goods, blurring the boundaries between paid and unpaid work. This book examines how gendered patterns of work have changed and explores the extent to which global retail opens up new channels to leverage more gender-equitable gains in sourcing countries.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108492312

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Women and Agribusiness

Working Miracles in the Chilean Fruit Export Sector

By: Stephanie Barrientos,Anna Bee,Ann Matear,Isabel Vogel

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Women and Agribusiness

Working Miracles in the Chilean Fruit Export Sector

By: Stephanie Barrientos,Anna Bee,Ann Matear,Isabel Vogel

Fresh fruit exported from Chile has become commonplace in our supermarkets during the winter months. Women form a large part of the seasonal labour force in this branch of Chilean agribusiness. This book provides an in-depth examination of the 'fruit explosion' in Chile, and the implications for rural women of working in agribusiness. It examines state policies to support seasonal workers, and asks whether supermarket codes of conduct will benefit these workers in the context of a global economy.

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Springer

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1349272167

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Practical Radicals

Seven Strategies to Change the World

By: Deepak Bhargava,Stephanie Luce

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Practical Radicals

Seven Strategies to Change the World

By: Deepak Bhargava,Stephanie Luce

A clear, expert, and inspiring guide to social change, based on case studies of grassroots movements that won, from two leading community and labor experts “Our movements must seek and win governing power to achieve our visions for a more just society. This book is a vital resource for progressives who want to win.” —Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), chair, Congressional Progressive Caucus How do underdogs, facing far stronger opponents, sometimes win? In the tradition of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals and Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce’s Practical Radicals offers winning strategies, history, and theory for a new generation of activists. Based on interviews with leading organizers, this groundbreaking book describes seven strategies to bring about transformative change. It incorporates stories of organizations and movements that have won, including Make the Road NY, the St. Paul Federation of Educators, the welfare rights movement, the Working Families Party, New Georgia Project, Occupy Wall Street, 350.org, the Fight for 15, and Gay Men’s Health Crisis. Two overarching case studies anchor the book: the brilliant techniques used by enslaved people and their allies to end slavery, and the sinister but effective ways elites imposed our current system. Practical Radicals offers insights on strategy used by business, military, and political elites, addresses the challenges of overcoming conflict within organizations and movements, and concludes with a discussion of how our movements must adapt to meet new challenges in the twenty-first century. A book for activists, organizers, and anyone hoping to win the fight for a better society, Practical Radicals is a deeply informed resource designed to help us win on the big issues of our time.

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The New Press

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1620978261

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9781620978269

Labor Movements

Global Perspectives

By: Stephanie Luce

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Labor Movements

Global Perspectives

By: Stephanie Luce

Fewer than 12 percent of U.S. workers belong to unions, and union membership rates are falling in much of the world. With tremendous growth in inequality within and between countries, steady or indeed rising unemployment and underemployment, and the marked increase in precarious work and migration, can unions still play a role in raising wages and improving work conditions? This book provides a critical evaluation of labor unions both in the U.S. and globally, examining the factors that have led to the decline of union power and arguing that, despite their challenges, unions still have a vital part to play in the global economy. Stephanie Luce explores the potential sources of power that unions might have, and emerging new strategies and directions for the growth of global labor movements, such as unions, worker centers, informal sector organizations, and worker co-operatives, helping workers resist the impacts of neoliberalism. She shows that unions may in fact be more relevant now than ever. This important assessment of labor movements in the global economy will be required reading for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of labor studies, political and economic sociology, the sociology of work, and social movements.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745682391

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9780745682396

Oil to Cash

Fighting the Resource Curse through Cash Transfers

By: Todd Moss,Caroline Lambert,Stephanie Majerowicz

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Oil to Cash

Fighting the Resource Curse through Cash Transfers

By: Todd Moss,Caroline Lambert,Stephanie Majerowicz

Oil to Cash explores one option to help countries with new oil revenue avoid the so-called resource curse: just give the money directly to citizens. A universal, transparent, and regular cash transfer would not only provide a concrete benefit to regular people, but would also create powerful incentives for citizens to hold their government accountable. Oil to Cash details how and where this idea could work and how policymakers can learn from the experiences with cash transfers in places like Mexico, Mongolia, and Alaska.

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CGD Books

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1933286695

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9781933286693

Democracy From Above?

The Unfulfilled Promise of Nationally Mandated Participatory Reforms

By: Stephanie L. McNulty

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Democracy From Above?

The Unfulfilled Promise of Nationally Mandated Participatory Reforms

By: Stephanie L. McNulty

People are increasingly unhappy with their governments in democracies around the world. In countries as diverse as India, Ecuador, and Uganda, governments are responding to frustrations by mandating greater citizen participation at the local and state level. Officials embrace participatory reforms, believing that citizen councils and committees lead to improved accountability and more informed communities. Yet there's been little research on the efficacy of these efforts to improve democracy, despite an explosion in their popularity since the mid-1980s. Democracy from Above? tests the hypothesis that top-down reforms strengthen democracies and evaluates the conditions that affect their success. Stephanie L. McNulty addresses the global context of participatory reforms in developing nations. She observes and interprets what happens after greater citizen involvement is mandated in seventeen countries, with close case studies of Guatemala, Bolivia, and Peru. The first cross-national comparison on this issue, Democracy from Above? explores whether the reforms effectively redress the persistent problems of discrimination, elite capture, clientelism, and corruption in the countries that adopt them. As officials and reformers around the world and at every level of government look to strengthen citizen involvement and confidence in the political process, McNulty provides a clear understanding of the possibilities and limitations of nationally mandated participatory reforms.

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286

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Stanford University Press

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1503608956

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9781503608955

Survival Songs

Conchita Piquer's 'Coplas' and Franco's Regime of Terror

By: Stephanie Sieburth

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Survival Songs

Conchita Piquer's 'Coplas' and Franco's Regime of Terror

By: Stephanie Sieburth

How can a song help the hungry and persecuted to survive? Stephanie Sieburth’s Survival Songs explores how a genre of Spanish popular music, the copla, as sung by legendary performer Conchita Piquer, helped Republican sympathizers to survive the Franco regime’s dehumanizing treatment following the Spanish Civil War (1936–39). Piquer’s coplas were sad, bitter stories of fallen women, but they offered a way for the defeated to cope with chronic terror, grief, and trauma in the years known as the “time of silence.” Drawing on the observations of clinical psychotherapy, Sieburth explores the way in which listening to Piquer’s coplas enabled persecuted, ostracized citizens to subconsciously use music, role-play, ritual, and narrative to mourn safely and without fear of repercussion from the repressive state. An interdisciplinary study that includes close readings of six of Piquer’s most famous coplas, Survival Songs will be of interest to specialists in modern Spanish studies and to clinical psychologists, musicologists, and those with an interest in issues of trauma, memory, and human rights.

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391

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University of Toronto Press

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1442661453

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9781442661455

Light, Bright, and Damned Near White

Biracial and Triracial Culture in America

By: Stephanie R. Bird

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Light, Bright, and Damned Near White

Biracial and Triracial Culture in America

By: Stephanie R. Bird

The election of America's first biracial president brings the question dramatically to the fore. What does it mean to be biracial or tri-racial in the United States today? Anthropologist Stephanie Bird takes us into a world where people are struggling to be heard, recognized, and celebrated for the racial diversity one would think is the epitome of America's melting pot persona. But being biracial or tri-racial brings unique challenges - challenges including prejudice, racism and, from within racial groups, colorism. Yet America is now experiencing a multiracial baby boom, with at least three states logging more multiracial baby births than any other race aside from Caucasians. As the Columbia Journalism Review reported, American demographics are no longer black and white. In truth, they are a blended, difficult-to-define shade of brown. Bird shows us the history of biracial and tri-racial people in the United States, and in European families and events. She presents the personal traumas and victories of those who struggle for recognition and acceptance in light of their racial backgrounds, including celebrities such as golf expert Tiger Woods, who eventually quit trying to describe himself as Cablanasin, a mix including Asian and African American. Bird examines current events, including the National Mixed Race Student Conference, and the push to dub this Generation MIX. And she examines how American demographics, government, and society are changing overall as a result. This work includes a guide to tracing your own racial roots.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313065446

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9780313065446

Incomplete Conquests

The Limits of Spanish Empire in the Seventeenth-Century Philippines

By: Stephanie Joy Mawson

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Incomplete Conquests

The Limits of Spanish Empire in the Seventeenth-Century Philippines

By: Stephanie Joy Mawson

In Incomplete Conquests, Stephanie Joy Mawson uncovers the limitations of Spanish empire in the Philippines, unearthing histories of resistance, flight, evasion, conflict, and warfare from across the breadth of the Philippine archipelago during the seventeenth century. The Spanish colonization of the Philippines that began in 1565 has long been seen as heralding a new era of globalization, drawing together a multiethnic world of merchants, soldiers, sailors, and missionaries. Colonists sent reports back to Madrid boasting of the extraordinary number of souls converted to Christianity and the number of people paying tribute to the Spanish Crown. Such claims constructed an imagined imperial sovereignty and were not accompanied by effective consolidation of colonial control in many of the regions where conversion and tribute collection were imposed. Incomplete Conquests foregrounds the experiences of indigenous, Chinese, and Moro communities and their responses to colonial agents, weaving together stories that take into account the rich cultural and environmental diversity of this island world.

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Cornell University Press

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1501770292

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9781501770296

Widowhood in Early Modern Spain

Protectors, Proprietors, and Patrons

By: Stephanie Fink De Backer

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Widowhood in Early Modern Spain

Protectors, Proprietors, and Patrons

By: Stephanie Fink De Backer

Based on clerical ideals of female comportment and Golden Age playwrights’ fixation on questions of honor, modern scholarship, whether historical or literary, has viewed women as subjects and objects of patriarchal control. This study analyzes tensions and contradictions produced by the interplay of patriarchal norms and the realities of widows’ daily lives to demonstrate that in Castile patriarchy did not exist as a monolithic force, which rigidly enforced an ideology of female incapacity. The extensive analysis of archival documents shows widows actively engaged in their families and communities, confounding images of their reclusion and silence. Widows’ autonomy and authority were desirable attributes that did not collide with the demands of a society that recognized the contingent nature of patriarchal norms.

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BRILL

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9004191704

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9789004191709

Chick Lit and Postfeminism

By: Stephanie Harzewski

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Chick Lit and Postfeminism

By: Stephanie Harzewski

The author offers a scholarly dissection of "chick lit" from a post-feminist perspective. She analyzes the novel Bridget Jones' Diary and the HBO series Sex and the City while making parallels back to writings of Jane Austen and the Victorian novel in general. She looks at what these works say about women in society and whether they are just an escape or a serious reflection of women's concerns.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813930715

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9780813930718

Gender and Work in Global Value Chains

Capturing the Gains?

By: Stephanie Barrientos

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Gender and Work in Global Value Chains

Capturing the Gains?

By: Stephanie Barrientos

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Cambridge University Press

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1108600654

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Women and Agribusiness

Working Miracles in the Chilean Fruit Export Sector

By: Stephanie Barrientos,Anna Bee,Ann Matear,Isabel Vogel

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Working Miracles in the Chilean Fruit Export Sector

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The Girl Who Had to Travel Many Roads to Get to Her Destination

By: Stephanie Warner

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The Girl Who Had to Travel Many Roads to Get to Her Destination

By: Stephanie Warner

When we are born, we have no idea what roads we are going to take or what decisions we are going to make. As teens, we all think we know what is best for us. We don't want to listen to anyone, and we go around making decisions that aren't good for us. Little do we know, with every decision we make, we are either damaging our life, or we are making it better. The people in our lives whether by choice or no choice also have an influence on our lives with the words they speak or by the peer pressure they cause. No matter what is going on around you, don't allow things or people bring you down or cause you to spiral out of control. No matter what we face in life, we have a choice to allow it to keep us down or lift us up. In this book, you will see the many roads that were traveled--some good and some bad. Either way, a destination was reached. As we look back at our lives, instead of regret, forgive yourself and forgive others. Make your life the best life possible. Look back knowing that a lot of lessons were learned even if they were hard lessons.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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9798888320570

My Tiara Is Giving Me A Headache (The Mini-Series)

By: Stephanie Dolce

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My Tiara Is Giving Me A Headache (The Mini-Series)

By: Stephanie Dolce

Kellie Harrison thought she was about to have it all, including Parker Bradley. But something happens that changes her life forever. How will Kellie handle being at the center of a scandal?

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Lulu.com

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1304278255

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Cinderella Smith

By: Stephanie Barden

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Cinderella Smith

By: Stephanie Barden

Cast off by her old friends, Cinderella agrees to help a new student deal with the stepsisters she will soon have, and meantime, a former friend tries to prevent Cinderella from dancing the lead in their tap recital.

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0061964247

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Changing Gender Patterns of Work in Global Value Chains

Changing Gender Patterns of Work in Global Value Chains

Women and Agribusiness

Women and Agribusiness

Practical Radicals

Practical Radicals

Labor Movements

Labor Movements

Oil to Cash

Oil to Cash

Democracy From Above?

Democracy From Above?

Survival Songs

Survival Songs

Light, Bright, and Damned Near White

Light, Bright, and Damned Near White

Incomplete Conquests

Incomplete Conquests

Widowhood in Early Modern Spain

Widowhood in Early Modern Spain

Chick Lit and Postfeminism

Chick Lit and Postfeminism

Gender and Work in Global Value Chains

Gender and Work in Global Value Chains

Women and Agribusiness

Women and Agribusiness

The Girl Who Had to Travel Many Roads to Get to Her Destination

The Girl Who Had to Travel Many Roads to Get to Her Destination

My Tiara Is Giving Me A Headache (The Mini-Series)

My Tiara Is Giving Me A Headache (The Mini-Series)

Cinderella Smith

Cinderella Smith

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