Front-line Workers in the Global Service Economy: Overshadowed and Overstretched in the Fast Fashion World 1032005599, 9781032005591

Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy 9781501703355

In Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy, Richard P. Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein argue that industr

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The Rise of the Frontline Workers 4035177925

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Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy 9780805075090, 0805075097, 2002071912

Women are moving around the globe as never before. But for every female executive racking up frequent flier miles, there

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Smiling down the Line : Info-Service Work in the Global Economy [1 ed.] 9781442697850, 9781442609815

Smiling Down the Line theorizes call centre work as info-service employment and looks at the effects of ever-changing te

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The Service Economy

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Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy [1 ed.] 9781501703355, 9781501700033

The world was shocked in April 2013 when more than 1100 garment workers lost their lives in the collapse of the Rana Pla

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Islamic Finance in the Global Economy 9780748631674

Islamic finance is growing at an astonishing rate and is now a $1200 billion industry, with operations in over 100 count

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Migration in the Global Political Economy 9781626370050

How does the evolution of global capitalism shape patterns and processes of migration? How does migration in turn shape

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Africa in the Global Economy 9781626372849

This in-depth analysis of the impact of international trade on Africa combines rigorous theoretical analysis with an emp

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The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy 9780814768570

Examines environmental inequality and racism in our globalized culture as evidenced by the social demographics of Silico

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