No45

NO. 70 FALL 2006 

GLOBALIZATION AND THE LATIN AMERICAN WORKPLACE

Issue Editors: Joel Stillerman and Peter Winn

Introduction (See Abstract)

Joel Stillerman and Peter Winn

Is Globalization Good for Workers? Definitions and Evidence from Latin America (See Abstract)

Gerhard Reinecke

Globalization and the Transformation of Work in Rural Brazil: Agribusiness, Rural Labor Unions, and Peasant Mobilization (See Abstract)

Cliff Welch

Lousy jobs, Invisible Unions: The Mexican Retail Sector in the Age of Globalization (See Abstract)

Chris Tilly and Jose Luis Alvarez Galvan

Global Processes and Local Lives: Guatemalan Women's Work and Gender Relations at Home and Abroad (See Abstract)

Cecelia Menjivar

ARTICLES

A New World of Retail Supremacy: Supply Chains and Workers'

Chains in the Age of Wal-Mart (See Abstract)

Richard Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein

Working for McDonald's, France: Resistance to the Americanization of Work (See Abstract)

Marianne Debouzy

REVIEW ESSAY

Better than Barraclough? Putting Global Labor History on the Map

Michael Hanagan and Peter Nekola

THROUGH THE CAMERA'S EYE

Recent Documentary Films on Latin American Workers

Peter Winn

CONFERENCE REPORT

Labouring Feminism and Feminist Working-Class History in North America and Beyond

Franca Iacovetta

BOOK REVIEWS

The Passeggiata and Popular Culture in an Italian Town, by Giovanni del Negro

Reviewed by Jason Pine

Cold War Crisis and Conflict: The CPBG, 1951-1968, by John Callaghan

Reviewed by Kevin Morgan

Imaazje! De verbeelding van Provo 1965-1967, by Niek Pas

Reviewed by Gerd-Rainer Horn

Women and Work Culture: Britain c. 1850-1959, Krista Cowman and Louise A. Jackson, editors

Reviewed by Peter Weiler

Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science and Conception in Eighteenth Century Britain, by Lisa Ford

Reviewed by Oz Frankel

A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration, by Steven Hahn

Reviewed by David Montgomery

Return to top

EDITORS | CURRENT | PAST | FUTURE | WORK IN PROGRESS | SUBMISSIONS |BOOKS RECEIVED | LINKS |SUBSCRIBE | CONTACT US | HOME
 
 
Design by Sanja Trpkovic
The New SchoolThe New School Divisions
Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy The New School for General Studies The New School for Social Research Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy Parsons The New School for Design Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts Mannes The New School for Music The New School for Drama The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music Mannes The New School for Music