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Harvesting Hope: Building Worker Power at the Pioneer Valley Workers Center

Diana Carolina Sierra Becerra
Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 209–236.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-8117812
Published: 01 April 2020
...Diana Carolina Sierra Becerra Abstract This 2018 report reviews the organizing model of the Pioneer Valley Workers Center (PVWC), an organization based in Western Massachusetts that builds the collective power of immigrants and workers. It illustrates how the PVWC practices participatory democracy...
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Glorientalization: Specters of Asia and Feminized Cyborg Workers in the US-Mexico Borderlands

Long Thanh Bui
Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 129–156.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.13.1.129
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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The Dirty Body that Cleans: Representations of Domestic Workers in Brazilian Common Sense

Patricia de Santana Pinho
Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 103–128.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.13.1.103
Published: 01 September 2015
...Patricia de Santana Pinho Abstract This article examines representations of domestic workers in Brazilian “common sense,” in the Gramscian use of the term. It argues that the dominant trope of maids' bodies as “dirty,” and yet the “most suitable” to carry out the job of cleaning, is produced...
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Juana Alicia's Las Lechugueras /The Women Lettuce Workers

Dyan Mazurana
Meridians (2002) 3 (1): 54–81.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-3.1.54
Published: 01 September 2002
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“We Fit in the Society by Force”: Sex Work and Feminism in Africa

Ntokozo Yingwana
Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 279–295.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-7176439
Published: 01 November 2018
...Ntokozo Yingwana Abstract What does it mean to be an African sex worker feminist? In answering this question this essay draws from two qualitative studies with two African sex worker groups in 2014 and 2015—the South African movement of sex workers called Sisonke, and the African Sex Worker...
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Figure 2. Steering Committee for Sanctuary in the Streets. Courtesy of the Pioneer Valley Workers Center.

Steering Committee for Sanctuary in the Streets. Courtesy of the Pioneer Va...

in Harvesting Hope: Building Worker Power at the Pioneer Valley Workers Center > Meridians
Published: 01 April 2020
Figure 2. Steering Committee for Sanctuary in the Streets. Courtesy of the Pioneer Valley Workers Center. More
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An Intersectional Approach to Interrogating Rights: How the United States Does Not Comply with the Racial Equality Treaty

Malia Lee Womack
Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 236–264.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-9554167
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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Consumption as Changemaking and Producers as Artists: Theorizing Alt-Profit Corporations from a Transnational Feminist Perspective

Debjani Chakravarty, Christine Standish
Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 332–359.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-11266412
Published: 01 October 2024
... and globalized in a way that helps sales. This is done purposefully using text and graphics, including digital storytelling, buzzwords, and vibrant photography. Contrary to the Marxist framework of alienation, artisans are presented as workers who find joy in their work. Alt-profits invite consumers to buy...
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Figure 3. Our 2018 proposed structure to connect the various PVWC bodies. Each body will have at least two representatives, but the worker committees will hold the most decision-making power. As of early 2019, the farm cooperative has been added. In November 2019, we will hold our first convention. All the groups will propose and voted upon the organizational platform. Courtesy of the Pioneer Valley Workers Center.

Our 2018 proposed structure to connect the various PVWC bodies. Each body w...

in Harvesting Hope: Building Worker Power at the Pioneer Valley Workers Center > Meridians
Published: 01 April 2020
Figure 3. Our 2018 proposed structure to connect the various PVWC bodies. Each body will have at least two representatives, but the worker committees will hold the most decision-making power. As of early 2019, the farm cooperative has been added. In November 2019, we will hold our first More
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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 Bloor Papers, SSC.

Community Party U.S.A. leaders ( left to right ) Israel Amter, Claudia Jone...

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 More
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Human Trafficking and Sex Work: Foundational Social-Work Principles

Crystal DeBoise
Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 227–233.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.12.1.227
Published: 01 March 2014
...Crystal DeBoise Copyright © 2014 by Smith College 2014 CRYSTAL DEBOISE HumanTraffickingand SexWork: FoundationaSlocial-WorPkrinciples For over a decade, at three different agencies, I have practiced social work and case-management with survivors of human trafficking and sex workers. The first...
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Dreaming in the Delta: A Memoir Essay

Kristal Brent Zook
Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 155–165.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-8565935
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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Reflections on Feminist Interventions within the 2015 Anticorruption Protests in Lebanon

Deema Kaedbey, Nadine Naber
Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 457–470.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-7789750
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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Dreaming in the Delta: A Memoir Essay

Kristal Brent Zook
Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 278–288.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-3.2.278
Published: 01 March 2003
... wasgood. "Does your mama know you're in Mississippi?" The person asking was Geri Taylor, an organizer with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. We were seated around a conference table at Local 1529 in Indianola, Mississippi. Four other women were there, bags of fast-food chicken splayed out...
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De-naming: Unraveling the Sex-Skin and Gender-Mask Technologies in the Colonial Naming Structure

Chia-Hsu Jessica Chang
Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 417–438.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-11266372
Published: 01 October 2024
... reformations, domestic workers (particularly migrant women from Southeast Asian countries), licensed sex workers, and individuals who challenge normative, heterosexual, and reproductive standards of sex and sexuality have been muted and represented as abnormal (61). What, then, is the psychological structure...
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Filipinx Care, Social Proximity, and Social Distance

Alden Sajor Marte-Wood
Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 218–228.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-8913199
Published: 01 April 2021
...Alden Sajor Marte-Wood Content moderators. An invisible subset of business process outsourcing labor. They’re the workers reproducing the online social spaces we’ve come to depend on during this outbreak. Their affective and emotional burden is heavy. Before the pandemic, they were charged...
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The ‘War on Terror’ and Withdrawing American Charity: Some Consequences for Poor Muslim Women in Kolkata, India

Suchitra Samanta
Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 137–167.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2004-4.2.137
Published: 01 March 2004
... the terrorist attacks in the USA, CSC declared its intention to withdraw by September 31 of 2002. Social workers, deeply upset, observed to me that surely such withdrawal ought to be phased out over a few years for a destitute community, and not on such short notice. As it stood, they said, THE "WAR ON TERROR...
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Feminist Development Justice as Emancipatory Praxis: Recognizing the Knowledge of Social Movements “From Below”

Nasha Mohamed, Sutapa Chattopadhyay, Levi Gahman
Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 306–331.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-11266444
Published: 01 October 2024
... of redistributive justice ensures that the revenue generated by workers is dispersed back to the people (i.e., workers) who actually created the profit in the first place (APWLD 2020c ). Meaning, economic decisions are not left up to governments beholden to (i.e., bought and sold by) corporate power at the expense...
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Editor's Introduction

Paula J. Giddings
Meridians (2015) 13 (1): v–vii.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.13.1.v
Published: 01 September 2015
... domestic workers and East Asian factory workers in the U.S./ Mexico borderlands are perceived are the subjects of Patricia de Satana Pinho's "The Dirty Body that Cleans and Long Thanh Bui's "Glorientalization: Specters of Asia and Feminized Cyborg Workers respectively. Pinho, utilizing Gramsci's "common...
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Women of Color and the Global Sex Trade: Transnational Feminist Perspectives

Kamala Kempadoo
Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 28–51.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-1.2.28
Published: 01 March 2001
... overflowwith customers. The demand for sex workers is so great that more women are flown in during the week the ship stays in port. The Commissioner of Tourism calculates that the navy personnel spend around U.S. $1,000,000 on each visit. (1999, 209) The stationing of UN peacekeeping troops in Haiti during...
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