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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 (2024) 23 (2): 332–359.
Published: 01 October 2024
... by corporations) McDonaldize their marketing strategies to capitalize on consumer interests for sustainability, fair trade, “women’s empowerment,” and a desire to consume artisanal goods. They further argue that artisans from the Global South serving consumers in the Global North are framed as gendered...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 306–331.
Published: 01 October 2024
... .” Environment and Urbanization ASIA 1 , no. 1 : 45 – 65 . Dutta Madhumita . 2021 . “ Becoming ‘Active Labor Protestors’: Women Workers Organizing in India’s Garment Export Factories .” Globalizations 18 , no. 8 : 1420 – 35 . Fadaee Simin . 2017 . “ Bringing in the South: Towards...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 155–165.
Published: 01 December 2020
... her as much about herself, as it did about human rights and dignity in America today. Copyright © 2003 Wesleyan University Press, now published by Duke University Press on behalf of Smith College 2003 labor unions union organizers African American women Mississippi Delta women workers...
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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 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 , edited by Matos Rodríguez Felix V. and Delgado Linda C...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 261–277.
Published: 01 October 2019
.... It was a means to circumvent rising anticommunism across the West and build sympathy for women in colonial struggles in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Ling Long, one of two delegates from Malaysia, spoke bluntly about their independence war led by the Malaysian workers of Chinese descent who were miners...
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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
... women (not only heteronormative Lebanese middle- and upper-class women). Therefore, the positions of migrant workers, refugees, and LGBT people were included in the discourse and in the organizing. What activists defined as the You Stink movement in the context of the national garbage crisis...
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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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in Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960
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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 (2020) 19 (1): 65–84.
Published: 01 April 2020
... on, backdating and falsifying the documents that were supposed to demonstrate 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...
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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
...-markey-visits-lucio-perez/ . National Coalition for Immigrant Women’s Rights . 2011 . “ Defending Our Children and Families .” January 5 . http://latinainstitute.org/en/content/national-coalition-immigrant-women%E2%80%99s-rights-defending-our-children-and-families . Pioneer Valley Workers...
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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
... shape women’s participation in the international division of labor. Noticing that caste structures worker identity, Mohanty argues that “the definition of social identity of women as workers is not only class-based, but in fact, in this case, must be grounded in understandings of race, gender and caste...
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