ISBN:
0822387301
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0822335522
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0822335654
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9780822387305
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9780822335528
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9780822335658
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 284 p)
,
ill., maps
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
American encounters / global interactions
Parallel Title:
Print version From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras : Gender, Labor, and Globalization in Nicaragua
DDC:
305.43/338097285
Keywords:
Movimiento de Mujeres Trabajadoras y Desempleadas "María Elena Cuadra
;
Globalization Economic aspects
;
Sex differences
;
Women offshore assembly industry workers
;
Women's rights Societies, etc
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Asks how and under what circumstances grassroots organizations tap into global networks and how gender plays into transnational political practices, addressing these issues through extended ethnographic research into a Nicaraguan women's organization
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; About the Series; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. ""Just Us and Our Worms"": The Working and Unemployed Women's Movement, ""Maria Elena Cuadra""; 2. Oppositional Politics in Nicaragua and the Formation of MEC; 3. Gendering Power and Resistance in an Era of Globalization; 4. ""Autonomous but Organized"": MEC's Search for an Organizational Structure; 5. ""Rompiendo Esquemas"": MEC's Political Strategies and the Free Trade Zone; 6. MEC and the Postsocialist State: Democracy, Rights, and Citizenship under Globalization
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Resistance Goes Global: Power and Opposition in an Age of GlobalizationNotes; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]- 265) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822387305
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822387305
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