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Meridians (2002) 3 (1): 54–81.
Published: 01 September 2002
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 129–156.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Long Thanh Bui Abstract This article uses the 2006 experimental documentary Maquilapolis to shed light on the struggles of women workers in export-oriented industrial zones operating under the shadow of Asian global capitalism. My focus complicates the typical reading of the maquiladora factory...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 236–264.
Published: 01 April 2022
...) and 2) concerning the U.S. prison industrial complex (its “school to prison pipeline,” discriminatory sentencing practices, as well as police and prison workers’ violence against women). The author applies intersectional theory developed by Black feminists to UN Working Group reports, ICERD’s shadow...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 155–165.
Published: 01 December 2020
... plants, women in the grocery stores, and women in the nursing homes. Women are everywhere.” Working for the union, White is still employed by Delta, but as a liaison, which means that she negotiates complaints, mediating between workers and management. During my visit, we travel to Belzoni, another...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 174–204.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., conflict, and social unrest.3 Under conditions of political conflict, sexual harassment and violence are particularly targeted toward women workers and activists. According to Mary Beth Mills, the risks that women workers take when trying to unionize are considerable, with employers responding...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 31–60.
Published: 01 September 2009
... injustice but at the same time exercises gender privilege. Its expectations may use traditional wording but nonetheless develop new content that speaks both to the working-class context of Chinese immigrant women workers and to the racially structured labor market of contemporary U.S. society. More...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 73–93.
Published: 01 March 2001
... detailed treatment of the relationship between Filipina peasant resistance and the Philippine educational system as a whole. Methodologically comparable to Filipino PeasantWomen, the book WomenandAgribusinesaslso explores the fate of peasant women workers who provide the labor needed to maintain...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press . Barceló-Miller María de Fátima . 1998 . “ Halfhearted Solidarity: Women Workers and the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Puerto Rico During the 1920s .” In Puerto Rican Women’s History: New Perspectives...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 261–277.
Published: 01 October 2019
... in a Marxist analysis led by the Soviet Union and China, it emerged from the Communist International’s understanding of postwar imperialism, anticolonial nationalism, and the necessity of armed struggle. Just as important, however, were the movements of rural, agricultural waged and peasant women workers who...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 94–120.
Published: 01 June 2016
... aimed at materialist aims. Gonzalez wrote that, as poor black workers undercompensated in the neoslavery realm of domestic work in Brazil, black women comprise the superexploited segment. The super-exploitation they experience as a result of their interlocking experiences with racism, sexism...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 457–470.
Published: 01 October 2019
... the KW’s feminist archives, it made sense to have the interviews also support the KW’s work. Secondly, we were intentional from the beginning that our research will not focus on Lebanese women’s voices, but will also include migrant women workers, and Palestinian feminists in Lebanon, for example, who...
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in Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960
> Meridians
Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 46. Community Party U.S.A. leaders ( left to right ) Israel Amter, Claudia Jones, Ella Reeve Bloor, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 1941. Jones, a Trinidad-born immigrant, shared her global perspective on women’s status in “Half the World,” her regular column in the Daily Worker . Ella Reeve
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 166–176.
Published: 01 March 2008
... Females Non-white Females $6,704 $4, 2 77 $3,991 $2,86r Those industries which employ mainly black women are the most exploitative in the country. Domestic and hospital workers are good examples of this oppression; the garment workers in New York City provide us with another view of this economic slavery...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 65–84.
Published: 01 April 2020
... what the “subprime” was supposed to have predicted all along: that women and people of color in particular would not pay their bills. Arguably, though, it showed the opposite: like the sharecroppers and agricultural workers paid in scrip at the company store and denied access to the ledgers that showed...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 183–190.
Published: 01 September 2006
... issues. AIDWA demands that relief programs should recognize those subsidiary fishing industries with large numbers of women workers, such as collecting shells, fish trading, and fish selling. They also support relief for women's agricultural livelihood, such as rice paddies destroyed by sea-water...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 209–236.
Published: 01 April 2020
... are put into practice. I write on behalf of an all-women’s collective that implements the goals of our worker-led bodies and coordinates daily organizational operations. 3 Throughout the report, I use the “we” pronoun because our efforts have entailed the participation of thousands of people. The PVWC...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 September 2015
... and racially differentiated categories of New Commonwealth women immigrants were implicated and deployed in changing constructions ofwomen's role in British society as mothers and workers. This article extends these insights by situating these developments within the wider frame of decolonization...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 297–322.
Published: 01 October 2023
... : State University of New York Press . Mohanty Chandra Talpade . 1984 . “ Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses .” boundary 2 12/13, no. 3 , no. 1: 333 – 58 . Mohanty Chandra Talpade . 1997 . “ Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts: Ideologies...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 478–502.
Published: 01 October 2023
... actively erased; all one has to do is look for the early trades workers in death work and they are right there in the records. This is precisely what I did when I first sought out the 100 Black Women of Funeral Service (100BWFS), an international professional organization that positions Black women...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 11–38.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Women Councillors’ Network (WCN)—the only “nationwide, membership-based and democratically elected network in the country that has effectively aggregated and articulated women’s interest in the local government” (168). She also documents how, just as Lady Health Workers and teachers in public schools...
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