Description
Book SynopsisExplores the mutual shaping of local struggles and global forces. This book shows how groups negotiate, circumvent, challenge, and even re-create the complex global web that entangles them.
Table of ContentsPreface
1. Introduction: Reaching for the Global
Michael Burawoy
PART ONE • GLOBAL FORCES
Introduction to Part One
2. Global Discourses of Need:
Mythologizing and Pathologizing Welfare in Hungary
LynneHaney
3· Excavating "Globalization" from Street Level:
Homeless Men Recycle Their Pasts
Teresa Gowan
4· Degradation without Deskilling:
Twenty-Five Years in the San Francisco Shipyards
Joseph A. Blum
PART TWO· GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
Introduction to Part Two
5· "Dirty Nurses" and "Men Who Play":
Gender and Class in Transnational Migration
Sheba George
6. Net-Working for a Living:
Irish Software Developers in the Global Workplace
Sean 6 Riain
7. Traveling Feminisms:
From Embodied Women to Gendered Citizenship
Millie Thayer
PART THREE· GLOBAL IMAGINATIONS
Introduction to Part Three
8. Cognitive Cartography in a European Wasteland:
Multinational Capital and Greens Vie for Village Allegiance
Zsuz.sa Gille
g. Contesting the Global City:
Pittsburgh's Public Service Unions Confront a Neoliberal Agenda
Steven H. Lopez
10. From Private Stigma to Global Assembly:
Transforming the Terrain of Breast Cancer
Maren Klawiter
CONCLUSION
11. Grounding Globalization
Michael Burawoy
Bibliography
Index
