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“Important and provocative . . . There are many tempting reasons to pick up Global Woman.” –The New York Times Women are moving around the globe as never before. But for every female executive racking up frequent flier miles, there are multitudes of women whose journeys go unnoticed. Each year, millions leave third world countries to work in the homes, nurseries, and brothels of the first world. This broad-scale transfer of labor results in an odd displacement, in which the female energy that flows to wealthy countries is subtracted from poor ones–easing a “care deficit” in rich countries, while creating one back home. Confronting a range of topics from the fate of Vietnamese mail-order brides to the importation of Mexican nannies in Los Angeles, “Global Woman” offers an original look at a world increasingly shaped by mass migration and economic exchange. Collected and with an Introduction by bestselling social critics Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, this groundbreaking anthology reveals a new era in which the main resource extracted from developing nations is no longer gold or silver, but love. Edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild Introduction by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild Love and Gold by Arlie Russell Hochschild The Nanny Dilemma by Susan Cheever The Care Crisis in the Philippines: Children and Transnational Families in the New Global Economy by Rhacel Salazar Parreas Blowups and Other Unhappy Endings by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo Invisible Labors: Caring for the Independent Person by Lynn May Rivas Maid to Order by Barbara Ehrenreich Just Another Job? The Commodification of Domestic Labor by Bridget Anderson Filipina Workers in Hong Kong Homes: Household Rules and Relations by Nicole Constable America’s Dirty Work: Migrant Maids and Modern-Day Slavery by Joy M. Zarembka Selling Sex for Visas: Sex Tourism as a Stepping Stone to International Migration by Denise Brennan Among Women: Migrant Domestics and Their Taiwanese Employers Across Generations by Pei-Chia Lan Breadwinner No More by Michele Gamburd Because She Looks like a Child by Kevin Bales Clashing Dreams: Highly Educated Overseas Brides and Low-Wage U.S. Husbands by Hung Cam Thai Global Cities and Survival Circuits by Saskia Sassen Migration Trends: Maps and Chart by Robert Espinoza Appendix: Activist Organizations Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments The Contributors
